[Elecraft] Re: Solvent -- Better way

[Fred Jensen]

John Buck wrote:
> Perhaps my credibility is shot since I used to occasionally
 > wash my hands with TCE.

As a teenage ham in the mid-50's, we all cleaned stuff with carbon 
tetrachloride and just let it evaporate.  Then I "discovered" MEK, which 
would dissolve the anti-fungal coating on old WW2 surplus parts if you 
kept putting enough on. I did it in my bedroom where my radios were. 
Later in the USAF, we had a big bucket of TCE in which the Model 15's 
and 28's were dunked.  It was inside too.

OSHA:  If you're subscribed to this reflector, please don't have a cow.
I sure wouldn't do any of that today.  Apparently, I lucked out ... I'm 
still alive at the end of 2006 and the only behavior from my early adult 
years that affects me today (other than the fact that my wife is certain 
I'm crazy) involves combat.

ALL:  I would strongly (very strongly) recommend that the answer to the 
"which solvent" question for Elecraft equipment is "NONE."  Use *very* 
fine solder (mine is 0.015 63/37) which lets you precisely control the 
amount of solder, and thus flux, and will eliminate the need for 
cleaning anything.  I also have a very small desk fan which I use to 
blow the fumes sideways and away from me while soldering, and I always 
wash my hands after building.

73 and my best of whatever season greeting works for you,

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw