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    Canon Cadmium Sulfide Photo-receptor

    I was reading and found that Canon's photo-receptor is composed of Cadmium Sulfide (or at least at one time it was). I seem to remember someone telling me a very long time ago that Minolta's photo-receptor was also made of the same material.

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    I remember seeing one in a vintage machine and the color was something like "School Bus" yellow or maybe a bit more brown in color.

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    Re: Canon Cadmium Sulfide Photo-receptor

    Yeah they were yellow, I polished many CDS drums. This "dangerous" chemical was very popular for drums back in the day. I guess it had the characteristics to charge / discharge, etc. Disposal was strict if I remember. Years later they say exposure is bad. I guess us old timers would be dead by now if they didn't switch to organic drums

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    Re: Canon Cadmium Sulfide Photo-receptor

    That goes back 30 years. The last Cadmium drum I saw was in 1990.
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    Re: Canon Cadmium Sulfide Photo-receptor

    Quote Originally Posted by copyman View Post
    Yeah they were yellow, I polished many CDS drums. This "dangerous" chemical was very popular for drums back in the day. I guess it had the characteristics to charge / discharge, etc. Disposal was strict if I remember. Years later they say exposure is bad. I guess us old timers would be dead by now if they didn't switch to organic drums
    Cadmium was also used in metal plating. There apparently were many antique radio chassis plated with Cadmium which turns to a whitish crystalline powder of the course decades. Nasty stuff to breath.

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    Re: Canon Cadmium Sulfide Photo-receptor

    Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a U.S. Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles over much of the United States. The purpose was to determine the dispersion and geographic range of biological or chemical agents.



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    Re: Canon Cadmium Sulfide Photo-receptor

    Quote Originally Posted by teckat View Post
    Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a U.S. Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles over much of the United States. The purpose was to determine the dispersion and geographic range of biological or chemical agents.



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    Re: Canon Cadmium Sulfide Photo-receptor

    Quote Originally Posted by teckat View Post
    Operation LAC (Large Area Coverage) was a U.S. Army Chemical Corps operation which dispersed microscopic zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) particles over much of the United States. The purpose was to determine the dispersion and geographic range of biological or chemical agents.



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