[Tig] A film cleaner with no liquid?

[Frank Hellmann]

Martin Parsons schrieb:
>
> With the advent of washing machine techniques that use plastics balls
> and a teaspoon of water, I was wondering if anyone has come across a
> film cleaning machine that uses no liquid?
>
> If so - how good is it? I can understand such a machine being able to
> blow off debris - but how would it remove water marks say?
>
>   
We use a Schmitzer "Turbo Clean" to clean telecined rolls back to start 
and to prepare them for scanning. This works by running it through 4 
rolls of sticky tape and a vacuumed brush. It works pretty good for 
dust, but doesn't get rid of fingerprints/stains. And yes, bad splices 
can open up in that cleaner, though this has very rarely happened here.

If there is excessive dirt on a roll that one is sent back to the lab 
for wet cleaning.
> If there is no such machine then what would be the most eco-friendly
> machine to use?
>   
There are some newer solvents/wetgate fluids out that are less harmful 
than perchlor. Kodiak has a liquid (Kodiak SES) that is used in the 
wetgate option of the ARRI Scan and doesn't need special air filters. 
That might also work as a cleaning solution, but I have not used it 
personally.

    Best,
             Frank...

Standard disclaimer: I do not work for the above mentioned vendors, but 
use their stuff for work.