[Milsurplus] dissolving moisture-fungi resistant lacquer

[John Hutchins]

Herman -

Get a good book; Patience Patience Patience is the key.
Obtain a eye dropper just keep applying thinner/remover to the devices 
it will soften up.

There is a furniture varnish stripper BIX that can break up varnish.  
Tape off areas that you do not want stripped.

BIX stripper will eat the varnish off enameled wires; be careful.  Use a 
whetted cloth with distilled water dabbing off the gunk.  You may thin 
BIX with acetone.  Once the Varnish softens up mineral spirits or lock 
tight remover can then be used to get into the threads to help loosen 
them.  Patience Patience Patience is the key.

My 2 cents -
Hutch


Herman Folgering wrote:
> I'm currently working on a couple of PRC10 radio's that are in dire need of a good alignment.
> They have been treated with a laquer or varnish to protect the insides from moisture and fungus,however I found that whoever did the work was not too carefull,they look beautiful,but all the alignment capacitors are seized solid,the laquer has wicked along the spindles and acts as avery efficient thread locker.
> I have tried to free them by carefully dripping some paint stripper on them,no luck,it is just too thick to soak into the threaded part.
> Has anybody run into this problem and what solvent could be used to free the little spindles up? 
> Thank you,
> Herman VE5 HFD 
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