I worked for many years in the mobile radio servicing industry, we
occasionally saw waterlogged radios and sometimes were asked to repair
them. Forget it, before the days of surface mount ICs it was hard to
ensure there wasn't corrosion starting under components, now it's
virtually impossible.
As
I live in Bloomsburg, Pa and we just experienced a record flood on the
Susquehanna River. The sewer backed up to a level of about 4 feet in our
basement while we were under a mandatory evacuaton. The K3 and P3 were under
about 18 inches of muddy water. Has anyone ever experienced this and found a
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From: patrick taylor ptayl...@gmail.com
To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wed, September 14, 2011 8:20:17 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K3s and P3s Can't Swim
I live in Bloomsburg, Pa and we just experienced a record flood on the
Susquehanna River. The sewer
Lee,
Out of sheer curiosity, did you mean 150 degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit? (For
the record - 150 F is approximately 65 C, quite normal for electronics. On
the other hand, 150 C is approximately 300 F - a little bit too high, I am
afraid. Not too high to cause the solder to melt, but still too
get the mud off with clean water and then lots of alcohol
the issue wit any electronics is getting power off/batteries out
and then dry out,, the alcohol will help get rid of the water
you didnt say if there was mud or just wet,, if it isnt too dirty then
alcohol
and invest in a can of deoxit to
nice to have clean equipment.
--... ...--
Dale - WC7S in Wy
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:37:06 -0700
From: alexeyk...@gmail.com
To: k...@swbell.net
CC: elecraft@mailman.qth.net; ptayl...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3s and P3s Can't Swim
Lee,
Out of sheer curiosity, did you mean 150
There was an Strays in QST MANY years ago about a Collins 75A series receiver
that had fallen off of a dock at a port in Africa while in it's crate. (Anyone
else recall that story?) The recipient retrieved the crate, removed all of the
tubes, washed every corner with fresh water and let it bake
Speaking from a 30+ year background in avionics repair, its finished,
period!
Wash and dry it if you'd like, and it may even work or appear to work,
but you cannot clean out components like potentiometers, unsealed
inductors/transformers, variable capacitors, and switches, etc.. If I
bought
KH6/W3GW tried this with another rig, after removing the speaker:
The Corsair arrived last year from E-bay. I opened the box and thought
I had bought a bag of cigarette butts. The price was dirt cheap so I put
it in the dishwasher and put it through a few cycles except I did not
let the
It works fine would be a matter of opinion, not the result of bench
testing. So, I wonder how the grease in the VFO handled the grease
cutters of the dishwasher soap? What did it do to the fine lubricants
in the switches, and potentiometers, or the finish on the rotary
switches?
We use shock
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