[AMRadio] Old Iron

[Mark Foltarz]

I had real good luck with drying out drenched transformers when I lived in Ohio.
I simply left them in the attic - a very, very hot and dry place - for the duration of the summer.
Several big power transformers and mod trans hipotted OK.
It just took several months

de KA4JVY
Mark




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> From: "Ka9p at aol.com" <Ka9p at aol.com>
>To: amradio at mailman.qth.net 
>Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:56 PM
>Subject: [AMRadio] Old Iron
> 
>Seems the best place to ask, I hope.
>
>I've got an old 32v that is a wreck, and clearly had been stored someplace  
>where there was lots of humidty.
>
>I figure the poor old girl had something seriously wrong to have been left  
>the way she was, and she's clearly not restorable.
>
>But the question is about the old iron.  Other than what may have been  her 
>original demise are the odds reasonable that if I go to the hassle of  
>recovering the transformers that they will be ok, or is protracted unfortunate,  
>storage more likely than not to render that stuff unuseable?
>
>And is there any process you go through under these circumstances to  
>condition the hardware before you start to test it under load?
>
>Thanks for your thoughts.
>
>Scott 
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