[ARC5] Chassis cleaning - Tap vs de-ionized water.

[John Hutchins]

All -
   No pictures but a good write up not types of water?
Hutch

On 5/25/2016 9:35 AM, Scott Robinson wrote:
> Hi Les,
>
> Well, let me tell the tale of an experiment done about 20 years go by 
> a guy who had a tropical test chamber (hot & wet) at work.
>
> He bought about 25 electrical box covers--plated steel like a 
> chassis--and washed them with 25 different cleaning products. He then 
> rinsed them all with tap water, and further rinsed *half* of each one 
> very thoroughly with distilled water. He put them all in the test 
> chamber for a month and posted a picture of the result.
>
> Half of each was very rusty, and the distilled water rinsed other half 
> was not. I wish I had captured the image, but I didn't. Moral is, 
> don't use any soapy kind of cleaners except in places you can 
> thoroughly rinse. For tobacco grease removal--WD-40 which is 
> essentially de-odorized kerosene--works fine and corrodes nothing. 
> Water and cotton balls, which you used, should be fine too, although 
> distilled or de-ionized water would be better.
>
> FWIW,
>
> /scott
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