I've had very good success by drying stuff in the oven. Like what has been
said before you want to get the water out as quickly as possible. Use caution
on the temp setting though. My oven will not even turn on below 175 F. I've
cleaned o'scope plug-ins with the garden hose and then put them in the oven to
dry for approximately an hour and they come out working fine.
When I was working for the telephone company we had a water main burst in
the building and flooded the switching equipment. We removed power to keep the
green foam from ruining too much and then proceeded to dry the equipment out
using several hair driers. If power is off the equipment water does not do
much harm.
73, Bill, WF4R
----- Original Message -----
From: KA2AEV@aol.com
To: VHFcontesting@contesting.com
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 11:48 AM
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [VHFcontesting] water damage
Im not so sure about sticking a radio into any type of oven for drying
You may be opening yourself up to a bunch of trouble if the heat setting is
off, you forget about the radio or any other bunch of senarios occur
I think Air drying would be the way to go
Even if it has to sit a few days or a week!
Mike
KA2AEV
In a message dated 10/13/2007 11:41:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
k3dne@comcast.net writes:
John,
Sorry.
I have seen similar. My elmer (K2CBA) would use a solvent and soap/water to
clean dirty electronics stuff but alow it to dry completely - days worth of
drying or longer (I don't remember if he used an oven or other to aid in the
drying process). I always thought it unusual to see electronic gear waiting
to be washed next to the kitchen sink...
Good luck!
73,
Ed K3DNE
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