[AMRadio] A dirty stinky question

[Kim Elmore]

I second what Mike said. From unfortunate experience (NOT with radios but rather a swamp cooler) I can assure you absolutely that sodium hypochlorite (the stuff that makes bleach "bleach") is extremely corrosive to any copper- or iron-based metals.  

Kim N5OP

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On Aug 23, 2013, at 17:19, "Mike Sawyer" <w3slk at verizon.net> wrote:

> Stay away from bleach. The sodium hypochlorite will attack the pcb runs and 
> any metal that is not nickel plated.
> Mod-U-Lator,
> Mike(y)
> W3SLK
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "wa9vrh" <wa9vrh at wildblue.net>
> To: <amradio at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 5:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] A dirty stinky question
> 
> 
> Hi Charlie,
> 
> Before you did any deeper you might do a search on the Hantavirius. It
> is transmitted via mice and rats
> and can be deadly to humans.
> 
> 
> I would think a bleach and soap solution would be a good starter.
> 73 Larry WA9VRH
> 
> On 8/23/2013 3:48 PM, CL in NC wrote:
>> I just recovered an old HP nixie tube freq counter I had loaned to a 
>> friend who is now a SK.  It had become mouse infested, that's about the 
>> only size thing that would fit through the fan vent holes, and while all 
>> the dry stuff came out nicely, the display board had a urine bath.  Does 
>> anybody have a sure fire way or dissolving or removing the rat pee residue 
>> from a circuit board?  The 250 VDC nixie voltage finds about a thousand 
>> ways to ground when you fire it up, nice subminiature fireworks display 
>> though, will probabaly need a bunch of nixie driver chips..
>> 
>> 
>> Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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