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Re: [Amps] SB-220 Submerged

To: "Gary Smith" <wa6fgi@sbcglobal.net>,"Bill Smith" <ko4nrbs@yahoo.com>, <amps@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] SB-220 Submerged
From: "Don Knight" <n4dek@triad.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 19:03:37 -0400
List-post: <mailto:amps@contesting.com>
"take the tubs out and dry them off with dish soap and water" ????????????


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Smith" <wa6fgi@sbcglobal.net>
To: "Bill Smith" <ko4nrbs@yahoo.com>; <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] SB-220 Submerged


> My suggestion is to take the tubs out and dry them off with dish soap and 
> water.
>
> Then take out the meters, put the amp in an already warm oven at the 
> lowest possible temp, this should be around 200 degrees or so.
>
> Leave it there for a couple of hors and then turn the oven off and let the 
> gizmo cool.
>
> Fwiw, this is the method that me and some of my friends used several years 
> ago when we were resurrecting old FM gear.
>
> Maybe it was "strokes of luck," but we never had any problems crop up when 
> the radios had the power put to them for tuning and usage.
>
> Check with some others if you wish, it does take some "intestinal 
> fortitude" to accomplish this the first time.
>
> 73,
> Gary... wa6fgi
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Bill Smith
>  To: amps@contesting.com
>  Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:45 PM
>  Subject: [Amps] SB-220 Submerged
>
>
>  Other than the obvious "dry it out" what should a guy
>  do to get a SB-220 back on after having been submerged
>  in a basement for over a week?
>
>  A friend of mine was away when a very bad storm
>  flooded his basement.  The water flowed up the stairs
>  and out the front door!!  So much for living at the
>  bottom of the hill and having no check valve on his
>  sump pump connection to the city sewer!!  Against city
>  rules many people had connected their sump pumps to
>  the city sewer.  That in turn over loaded the system
>  as well as the water coming down the street filled a
>  lot of basements.
>  73,
>  Bill
>
>  Bill Smith KO4NR
>
>
>
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