[Boatanchors] "Steam Cleaners" for Boatanchor cleaning?

[Glen Zook]

Back in 1970 when I first owned the Motorola
reconditioned equipment center for the south-central
United States we reconditioned tube-type mobiles for
about 6 months before Motorola took them off the
market.  We did steam clean these units.  However,
after steam cleaning we "baked" them in a specially
constructed oven that had the air flow modified to be
basically circular.  That is, the air flow made 3 or 4
revolutions from one end of the oven to the other. 
This thing was about 12 feet long, 4 feet high, and 4
feet deep.

It took about 48 hours before the units were
completely dry.  After the process was complete, we
sprayed the deviation controls with WD-40, the same
with the primary audio level potentiometers.  After
the complete drying process the units normally worked
fine.  Of course we did a complete alignment, tune up,
etc., because the frequency was almost never the same
as what the unit had come in on.

The solid-state equipment was run through a glass-bead
machine the entire time that I owned the facility
(1970 until Motorola went out of that end of the
business in late 1979).  After a cleaning with glass
beads, every unit looked the same no matter how it
looked to start with.  Virtually all of the customers
were quite pleased with how the units turned out.

Glen, K9STH


--- Ian <ianwebb5 at comcast.net> wrote:


Has anybody tried one of these on a 50 year old gunky,
nicotine coated, rodent infected boatanchor chassis?
  
Yes, I'd be careful NOT to use it on silk screening
and the like.  However it seems as though it might be
something that would be useful if it produces real
steam and it should make it possible to clean with
minimal water.

=====
Glen, K9STH

Web sites

http://home.comcast.net/~k9sth
http://home.comcast.net/~zcomco

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