[Amps] How to clean tube fins

[Jay Musikar]

Although use of an air compressor might seem to work fine, there is the danger that the dust will also become compacted within the fins.


Use of a soft paint brush and a good vacuum cleaner with a small wand has always worked for me.

73,
Jay/AF2C

--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Ryan Foster <foster.ryan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ryan Foster <foster.ryan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] How to clean tube fins
> To: amps at contesting.com
> Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 6:36 PM
> 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
> > > things I would like to do is check and clean the
> tube's fins.  What's
> > > the recommended way to do that?
> > >
> > > I will also check for what mod's have been
> done.  I know it has 10m.
> > > Unfortunately the owner has alzheimers and cannot
> convey any details to
> > the
> > > person handling the equipment for them.
> > > Take care,
> > > Mark
> > > AA3K
> > >
> >
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