Any of you guys ever make a home made film cleaning machine?

[slashmaster]

I'm seeing that there are a couple of ultrasonic cleaners from harbor freight tools that seem to be very reasonably priced. Was wondering how well it would work to rig up a few rollers to have film dip into the tank of one of these machines? Was also wondering about any other ways someone might have rigged up to clean films?

[Andreas Wideroe]

Hmm interesting, any links?

[jpolzfuss]

Looks like he's talking about one of these:
http://www.harborfreight.com/ultrasonic ... -3305.html
http://www.harborfreight.com/25-liter-u ... 95563.html

[chrisgavin]

Many years ago I had a summer job in a laboratory and used a bigger ultrasonic tank to clean and sterilize hundreds of tiny plastic bottles.
But funnily enough I also found myself looking around online at these machines last year sometime.
There are some really cheap versions and some really small ones too (for cleaning dentures and jewelry) so I hope someone will give this a try for film cleaning sometime.

I was wondering if these kind of machines might be able to remove the Remjet backing from colour negative film either before or after home processing...

Chris

[Nicholas Kovats]

I believe that film must be in motion for ultrasonic cleaning. Here's the dirt, i.e. http://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/han ... -cleaning/

[slashmaster]

Yes Jpolzfuss, those are the ones I was thinking of.

Yes Chris, someone already gave it a try, but on a huge professional expensive looking machine.

Yes Nicholas the film has to be in motion.

Here is that professional film cleaning machine. You can just imagine how much that thing cost http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adl6tmV3cfE Now how do you do one that won't take up that much space and won't cost the several thousand like this machine probably does?

[Andreas Wideroe]

I have a Lipsner Smith Excel 1100 with 8mm modification. 8)

[Nicholas Kovats]

That's impressive. What type of business are you running that justifies its existence?

[slashmaster]

Yeah! That is impressive! So Andreas, are the 4 big rollers on the bottom just like a sticky lint roller?

[Tscan]

I want to put together a sticky roller setup. Kodak still sells the rollers but not the assembly. Has anyone tried to make an assembly for sticky rollers?

[slashmaster]

I want to put together a sticky roller setup. Kodak still sells the rollers but not the assembly. Has anyone tried to make an assembly for sticky rollers?

I hear those remove dirt but leave sticky residue that attracts more dirt. Have not tried them so don't know for sure. Guess you could try lint rollers. Maybe that's almost the same thing?

[granfer]

http://www.film-tech.com/products/mediapads.php

This is what professional .theatres use to clean film as it is shown, mounted on the projector. The media rolls are used dry and are NOT sticky. They can also be used soaked in film lubricating fluid to clean and lubricate the film during projection.
There is also an "amateur" version using the same rolls called the Film-o-Clean.

[slashmaster]

http://www.film-tech.com/products/mediapads.php

This is what professional .theatres use to clean film as it is shown, mounted on the projector. The media rolls are used dry and are NOT sticky. They can also be used soaked in film lubricating fluid to clean and lubricate the film during projection.
There is also an "amateur" version using the same rolls called the Film-o-Clean.

Yeah, I need one of those!. But don't want to pay for it. Want to try to make one if I can figure out the ballpark gear ratio they are.