William, We're sorry to hear about your fire, especially loosing all of your Elecraft gear.
If you are washing your equipment with water it's important that you go to the shop and purchase *distilled *water like you should use for your solder sponge or car battery. Distilled water will mobilise ions and remove them from causing further corrosion damage to your electronic assemblies. Your worst enemy are alkalies like salt and reactive elements like Iron, both found in municipal town water. Keep washing with distilled water and keep flushing it for a few days and then let it dry out in a warm dry place. I have rescued a few KX3's after having taken a swim in sea water. I'm also luck to work at a semiconductor foundry, so we have 99.99995% pure water on site to work with (*grin*). I'm also assuming that the fire was a LiPO battery. The advice you have received about not entering your basement is wise. LiPO fires create compounds that are very, very toxic, I would also expect your insurance company to have your basement professionally cleaned before going back inside. You may find that after cleaning it may be necessary to seal in all the contaminates with paint or sealing compounds. If in doubt talk to your local fire department (seriously) they should have Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for LiPO battery and containment after a fire. Europe and Australia are similar in adoption of solar battery systems, so with large scale LiPO batteries in homes now, fire departments have further health risks to concern themselves with. Having had LiPO and LiFePO4 batteries (yes these burn too) that I use in my Radio Control Models catch on fire at various times I now charge any LiPO battery in a fire bag. https://hobbyking.com/en_us/batteries/lipo-safe-bags.html?___store=en_us They are cheap insurance that is for certain. Mijn beste wensen Matthew VK5ZM On 18 May 2017 at 06:59, William Lagerberg <pe1...@zendamateur.nu> wrote: > Guys, > > I want to give you a advice, my shack it (was) in the basement (cellar??) > I do all my thing for the hobby there. > A collega of mine asked me to take a look at two Go-Pro LI-Ion accu's > because they where not loading anymore. > > So I put the first one on the loader for 8 till 9 hours and checked it and > it was ok ( with 10% loading current) > Then I dit put the second one in same place at 10 in the morning at 3 my > daughter called me there is a fire. > We rusted to the cellar but I could not enter it was filled with dark > smoke. > > My shack is gone and 90 % off my house, I have insurance don’t now if it > is enough to cover all of my Elecraft stuff > > My K1, my own build K2 my K3 and my KX3 are gone, I found my K1 in 20 cm > off water really down under, I clean’t it with fresh water. > After that flushed it with pure alcohol. It is completely taken apart > today as far as is possible. > I Hope it will survive I will let it dry for a lot of day’s > > My K2 is melted the same as my P3 and my K3 perhaps I can order the > outside of both, but a am still not allowed to enter the basement so I > don’t know how it looks at the inside. > > So finale the message is please take care with li-ion accuse battery’s. It > did cost me our house in 1 hour. > > http://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/206119/bewoner-vlucht-met- > dieren-pand-uit-vanwege-grote-brand <http://www.nhnieuws.nl/ > nieuws/206119/bewoner-vlucht-met-dieren-pand-uit-vanwege-grote-brand> > > Regards William Pe1bsb > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to vk...@bistre.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
