Film scanner lines, terminal?

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Hi, My flatbed film scanner, an "Epson 4180 PHOTO" is probably more than 15 years old and has spent much of that time unused.
It has run fairly well lately, but last night, added some lines to the scans. 35mm film scans are made in two columns, the lines appear on both.
I have tried different scan b&w scanning modes (home and Pro) and several different resolutions. The lines appear in every scanned frame.

Is it likely that this is a permanent fault?

Example, top 50% of a frame.
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From memory, there's also some sort of calibration area on the surface, which, if dirty, causes lines. You should be able to do a search - I think it's been mentioned on this forum years ago.
 
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Ello chaps and chapettes... I'm having a little issue with my epson v330, in that on some photos its producing a line across the image. 241112004 by Mads.S, on Flickr Its not terribly obvious on this one, its about a 6th of the way down the picture, right the way across. It seems to be mostly...
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It's all my own fault......

Thanks for the link to the thread on scanner calibration. I read a few of the initial posts and saw that the problem for that OP was scratches on his negs.
I don't normally have any issues with my negs, so had assumed that it must be the scanner....... but, looking closely at the negs, there are indeed some very fine scratches in the emulsion. that must be what the lines are from. Scanning a earlier known good neg is fine.
This is the first roll from a bulk roll that I have loaded into (an old) plastic re-usable cassette. It must have grit in the felt trap!
 
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As said above, dust on the sensor head, take the lid off the bed, most of the light path is easy to get to and easy to clean but the sensor head is deep in the moving head and only a blower will clean thatIMG_20201113_231022.jpg
 
Today, I loaded a few more used 35mm cassettes with film from my bulk loader.
I was careful to open the gate (where the film exits the drum) before winding the film into the cassette. As I did this, I recalled that not long ago, I wound more than half a roll with the gate closed before realising my error. I have a feeling that that particular roll may be the one that shows scratches for most of the frames (many are very dark, so might not show much). It's so easy for those not so careful to go wrong....
 
I made the same error years ago. It's easy to forget if you load multiple cassettes infrequently.
 
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Today, I loaded a few more used 35mm cassettes with film from my bulk loader.
I was careful to open the gate (where the film exits the drum) before winding the film into the cassette. As I did this, I recalled that not long ago, I wound more than half a roll with the gate closed before realising my error. I have a feeling that that particular roll may be the one that shows scratches for most of the frames (many are very dark, so might not show much). It's so easy for those not so careful to go wrong....
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I asssume you are using one of the tear-drop shaped loaders? I had the same issue many years ago and as soon as I could I moved on to one of these type of loaders......
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... and never had a problem since.
 
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