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

[Scott Robinson]

As to water, I think he did the basic rinse with tap water and the 
serious rinse with distilled.

/scott

On 5/25/16 6:45 PM, John Hutchins wrote:
>
> 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
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> ARC5 mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/arc5
>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
>> Post: mailto:ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
>>
>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>> .
>>
>
> ______________________________________________________________
> ARC5 mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/arc5
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:ARC5 at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>