[Elecraft] Cleaning a K3

[Richard Fjeld]

I read about guys whose rigs were flooded a few years back, and they 
washed them in water and dried them somehow.  Said they worked fine 
after that.  Hard to imagine though.

Dick, n0ce


On 7/27/2016 1:15 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> My S3-line acquired a chronic case of creeping fungus on the chassis 
> while packed up and stored in the Philippines for 4 years.  Returning 
> home, I took it to the DIY car wash a couple of times and then dried 
> it in the sun.  Seemed to work really well, except for the fungi 
> living in the IF cans.  YMMV, I won't be doing that to my K3 however.
>
> I'd be real wary of any kind of solvent(s), circuit boards used to be 
> washed with distilled water, maybe still are.  Here in No NV, our 
> humidity runs in the single digits in the summer, things dry in the 
> sun very fast.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> Sparks NV
> Washoe County DM09dn
>