[Elecraft] K3s and P3s Can't Swim

[R Thompson]

Speaking from a 30+ year background in avionics repair, its finished,
period!

Wash and dry it if you'd like, and it may even work or appear to work,
but you cannot clean out components like potentiometers, unsealed
inductors/transformers, variable capacitors, and switches, etc..  If I
bought something like that, working or not, from someone who didn't tell
me upfront about it's history I'd be pretty upset when I found the
evidence of what had happened.

Take the insurance if there is any, to bring it back to the
manufacturer's specifications will be way too costly and not practical.

Being a homebuilder I wouldn't dispatch it to the dump either, the
sealed components would be useable as spares or parts for other
projects.

           Ron VE8RT



On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 21:20 -0400, patrick taylor wrote:
> I live in Bloomsburg, Pa and we just experienced a record flood on the
> Susquehanna River. The sewer backed up to a level of about 4 feet in our
> basement while we were under a mandatory evacuaton. The K3 and P3 were under
> about 18 inches of muddy water. Has anyone ever experienced this and found a
> way to clean and repair the equipment or should it be dispatched to the
> dump. It was a very bad day!
> 
> 73s Pat W3HVG
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