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Re: Smoker contamination removal


 

Yes. I had experimented with some liquid wrench
on an acid brush and it seemed to work great on the wire bundles.
But the "Fan-Monia" solution seems to do almost the same result.

I will post some more photos when its cleaned up.....

The fans are loaded with it too.

I once had niccotine ignite on me when I cleaned the bandswitch
on a Kenwood 530 rigg. It was a smoker radio and the contact
that got clean allowed the normal 300V B+ to the plate of the driver tube.

With the increased voltage, there was a foil trace from that feed that
was very close to the ground plane foil, and niccotine was embedded in
between, and it ignited when I powered on the rigg.

When I cleaned it out, it had left a pretty good groove in the fiberglass board
for the few seconds it burned. The stuff is very conductive. Smokers must be too.

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Steve Hearns [ KA2PTE ]
Technotronic Dimensions, VT [USA]
WWW.TECHNOTRONIC-DIMENSIONS.COM
E-Mail: Steve@...

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike repinski via groups.io" <mikflathead@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2024 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [ham-amplifiers] Smoker contamination removal


Getting the caps clean will be easy compared to cleaning the wiring.
On Saturday, November 23, 2024 at 06:27:27 PM EST, Technotronic Dimensions <steve@...> wrote:


I got the front cntrol panel all done, getting into the PS
area now...pretty bad.







In the PA compartment I see the bread slicers have some stuck in there,
should be fun
getting that out. Hopefully I can just let it soak in the stuff sprayed on,
then maybe some compressed air can blow them clean, but for now
this area is next.


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Steve Hearns [ KA2PTE ]
Technotronic Dimensions, VT [USA]
WWW.TECHNOTRONIC-DIMENSIONS.COM
E-Mail: Steve@...

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