[Boatanchors] Drying out power supplies?

Rob Atkinson ranchorobbo at gmail.com
Tue Apr 14 19:45:00 EDT 2020


Thanks, but I should have written that gas produces H2O and CO.
Sorry about that.

K5UJ

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:26 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
>     You may be able to make a drying oven from nested cardboard
> boxes heated with incandescent light bulbs. It doesn't need much
> heat. The boxes should be perforated to allow some ventilation.
> Rob is correct about the moisture from a gas flame.
>
> On 4/14/2020 2:54 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> > Two comments:  Gas ovens may add moisture not bake it out.  Gas
> > combustion produces H2O and CO2 I believe.  Drying oven should be
> > electric.
> > But, so far I've never needed to bake anything because I always keep
> > my big iron indoors where I run a dehumidifier set to 40% whenever the
> > air feels damp.  No problems so far.
> >
> > 73
> > Rob
> > K5UJ
>


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