Re: Thunder Scan

[gkomatsu@uhunix.its.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu)]

In article <DFGz3J.4JJ@gonix.com> jranney@gonix (John Ranney) writes:
>gkomatsu@uhunix4.its.Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu) writes:
>[stuff blasted away]
>: 	Also, is the lens supposed to be pointing slightly to the left?
>: Given its position, it seems the unit would completely miss scanning a
>: whole inch off the right margin of a page (unless of course you feed
>: the paper to the extreme left of the platen... =^)
>And we now know why it was at the thrift shop.  I have one and I don't 
>believe I would describe it as looking to the left.

	ehh, don't knock thrift shops too quickly, you can find lots of
great stuff there for cheap.  (still kicking myself for not grabbing
that //e + drive + "Mega-RAM 80" card I saw at another shop for $3)
Even if it's marked "as is" doesn't mean it's busted, usually means they
had no idea how to test it.  (though in the case of that Atari 400 I
picked up, it really was "as is" =^)

	Anyways, the Thunderscan (which wasn't tagged, and they ended up
gouging me a whole hard earned dollar for it) looks in pretty darn good
condition except for a little lint in the velcro.  Looking at the lens
It doesn't appear it was knocked off kilter, in fact trying to nudge it
back to the right, the pc-board it's mounted to rocks a bit possibly
suggesting it's "supposed" to be pointing that way.  Eyeballing it, I'd
say it's about 5 degrees off "straight foward".

	btw, is the cover glued on?  Towards the back, it seems it can
be popped off but towards the front it gets tighter.

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