[Boatanchors] hickok 600A disaster!

[WE0H]

Sad news indeed. You could hand rub the plastic clear again with some 
plastic polish which is used to polish headlamps on cars to rid of 
sandblasting from the roads. Go check out AutoZone or whatever you have 
out there. Next time, try Simple Green to clean your treasures. It won't 
attach the plastic nor your skin.

Mike
WE0H

eugene wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Bought a hickok 600A on epay and I really epaid! I had been looking for
> a tube tester that can do some more modern tubes than my I-177B for
> quite some time. Make a long story short, it came and had 2 inch-thick
> coating of nicotine on the panel (or so it seemed). I spent the better
> part of today trying to clean it up.  
> 
> Well, I did something stupid. One of the cleaners I was using must have
> attacked the plastic meter cover and now it's almost completely fogged.
> At first I thought it was just humidity and I removed the cover hoping
> to wipe it away. Well, although the fog didn't wipe away, I was able to
> use the rag to wipe away the tears hi, hi! At least the meter itself
> looks very good.
> 
> So here goes another long shot.  I am looking for one of the following: 
> 1. A nice plastic meter cover
> 2. Someone who may be willing to try to polish my cover (I cannot do it,
> and I'm not sure it can even be done)
> 3. A replacement meter. Hopefully something off a donor. Not a shiny new
> expensive one.
> 
> I know of one tube tester calibration place that will sell meters for
> $125-$180. But that is just an incredible sum of money and could never
> spend that in good conscience (the xyl would sooner divorce me!).
> 
> Well, thanks to anyone who can help.
> Eugene w2hx