Take the tubes out, wash them carefully with warm dish soap and water.
Do not use a solution than is what your hands can tolerate both temp and
cleanser wise.
Arrgh!!
73,
Gary... wa6fgi
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Knight
To: Gary Smith ; Bill Smith ; amps@contesting.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] SB-220 Submerged
"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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