[Amps] SB-220 Submerged

[Gary Smith]

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 at 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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