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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
The drill is to desiccate the desiccant cylinder: it goes into a high vacuum chamber and gets baked at 90 centigrade for a few hours. Those familiar with the dark art of hyper sensitizing photographic film will understand why this works *really* well.
I then flush the chamber with Argon to get it to 1 atmosphere before cracking the seal.
The camera head also gets flushed with a low pressure Argon gas fill and is quickly plugged with the revamped desiccant cylinder. Argon is a noble gas hence won't cause any nasty corrosion problems.
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Peter I will send my STL11 when it needs doing if you don't mind. What do you charge for the service?