Don't put the transformer in the washer.
You will be watching on EBay for a replacement.
Rick, WD8JJA.
Message: 6
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:15:10 +0100
From: Dave White <mausoptik@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] How to clean tube fins
To: Ryan Foster <foster.ryan@gmail.com>, <amps@contesting.com>
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I bought an old Heath SB220 from a silent key sale in Liverpool many years
ago. The whole amp was orange/brown. I marvelled at what pretty gold
anodising Heath must have used. I also thought that the tank coils were
just dull chocolate brown because they were copper and not silver plated.
It was only when I fired the amp up and got an instant tobacco smell that it
occurred to me to clean it. The owner must have spent many hours blowing
tobacco smoke into it. No wonder his new QTH was Anfield Cemetary...
It didn't occur to me to use the dishwasher to clean it...though I regularly
use the dishwasher to clean cranks, pistons, cylinder heads, gearbox
internals etc....
Dave G0OIL
-----Original Message-----
From: "Ryan Foster" <foster.ryan@gmail.com>
To: amps@contesting.com
Sent: 23/04/2010 23:36
Subject: Re: [Amps] How to clean tube fins
Unless someone who had it before you was a smoker, you can just blow it out
with an air compressor. I've never had anything in any I couldn't just blow
out.
If someone was a smoker or burned cheap candles in the hamshack or
something, dishwasher just like Jim said. If that is the case though, I
wouldn't just put the tubes in there, I'd put the whole amp.
--Ryan w8cya
> > I'll be taking posession of an Alpha 78 in about a week. One of the
> first
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