joeseph wrote in post #19156075
you're being very kind...

actually when it broke, it showered the sensor itself with little glass shavings, so I was lucky really that it didn't scratch the cr@p out of it.
Took to it with the vacuum cleaner to get all the dust & stuff off & a quick clean with pec-pad/eclipse and good as new.
What I didn't know then (and I do now: see picture) is that the black plastic IR filter holder thingy comes off the sensor itself, if you only remove the right screw....
I have found with that sort of thing, there seems to be more glass if it gets even the simplest of breaks, than ever was present in the first place. As you say, hard to clean up but I had a large badger hair brush (very expensiff) was a shade more gentle at rounding up the chips.