[Collins] Re: {Collins} Cleaning off nicotine

Tue Apr 5 14:09:58 EDT 2005

DO NOT!!USE WINDEX IN ANY CONCENTRATION on a lettered panel.
It contins ammonia and alcohol, both good paint solvents.  Avery mild
solution of your dishwashing soap works well.
jack

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:27:57 -0500 Robert & Linda McGraw K4TAX
<RMcGraw at Blomand.Net> writes:
> I found that one part Windex and one part water works well and does 
> not 
> damage the lettering.  It also works well on the chassis.
> 
> 73
> Bob, K4TAX
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kurt Keller" <kkeller1 at comcast.net>
> To: <jim.isbell at gmail.com>; "Collinsmailmanqthnet" 
> <Collins at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:09 PM
> Subject: [Collins] Re: {Collins} Cleaning off nicotine
> 
> 
> > Jim:
> >
> > Sounds like you were able to get these nice and clean.  In using 
> Windex 
> > one time on the face of a 75A-4 that had a lot of nicotine
> > I saw that it also started to remove the white lettering and I hit 
> the 
> > unit fast with just plain water and saved the day. I had used
> > Windex on numerous units in the past with no problems.  What 
> appears to 
> > have happened is it blended with the nicotine on contact
> > and then reacted with the lettering. From then on I kept anything 
> other 
> > than water away from the lettering on the St James stuff that was
> > contaminated with nicotine.
> >
> > I once tried to clean a 32S-3A that had been rack mounted and must 
> have 
> > been in commercial use. It had like a brown varnish on it 
> especially
> > on the underside.  I think there must have been a piece located 
> below it 
> > that ran hot.  The Windex would not do anything with filth on this 
> set.  I 
> > just
> > shot it with 409 and kept spraying it down and it all came off.  I 
> then I 
> > flushed it with a hose and let it sit in the sun for a full day 
> and did 
> > not
> > attempt to turn it on for a week.  It worked fine.  Also I checked 
> it 
> > operationally before I did this to insure it was working first.  I 
> would 
> > never
> > have done this till I knew the unit was working.
> >
> > To sum it up be real careful with what you use around the white 
> lettering 
> > on the St James stuff.
> >
> > Kurt Keller
> >
> >
> >
> > At 06:52 PM 4/4/2005, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> >>About 18 months ago I got the first of my Collins equipment and 
> the
> >>75S-1 receiver was impregnated with nicotine.  As I walked into 
> the
> >>house with it my wife screamed from another room, "Get that thing 
> out
> >>of the house!"  She hadnt even seen it but its odor preceded it 
> into
> >>the house!!!
> >>
> >>I cleaned it off by spraying it with 409 and then hosing it off 
> with a
> >>garden hose and then let it sit in the sun for 6 hours.  It worked 
> and
> >>she allowed me to bring it into the house.  As I sprayed the 409 
> on it
> >>the brown nicotine flowed off onto the sidewalk in bright brown
> >>streams.  It was horrible.  I sprayed everything, chassis and 
> all.
> >>
> >>A couple of weeks ago I bought a 30L-1 that was reported to be 
> heavily
> >>encrusted with nicotine.  The seller was overstating (how is that 
> for
> >>an exception) it as it really wasn't that bad...at least you could 
> not
> >>smell it like I could on the 75S-1.  In the past week I have been
> >>getting ready to put the 30L-1 on that air.  I decided to take a 
> look
> >>at the cap and diode boards before letting them go and was glad I 
> did
> >>as I have now ordered a cap/diode board from W6WJN to replace the
> >>originals even though they did fire up and come up to voltage.  
> They
> >>were originals so as several of you suggested, I will replace 
> them.
> >>
> >>But while I had the cabinet off I decided to clean the nicotine 
> off
> >>it.  I used a product that is far cheaper than 409 and works 
> better.
> >>It is available at the Dollar Store for $2 in a 40oz jug with a 
> spray
> >>head.  Its called Thunder Blast degreaser.  NOW be aware that I 
> did
> >>not try it on the chassis and circuitry, only on the cabinet.   
> The
> >>cabinet turned from a dirty gray to a like new Collins gray is 
> seconds
> >>with NO scrubbing, just flowing on and washing off, and looks 
> great.
> >>
> >>I am going to leave the circuitry alone as it doesnt smell bad and 
> I
> >>am not sure what effect the Thunder Blast might have on labels 
> etc.
> >>--
> >>Jim Isbell
> >>"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
> >>you are just taking up too much space."
> >>W5JAI
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