[Milsurplus] "condenser cleaners"

[Tom Dawson]

The ad for condenser cleaners can be found by a google search on " "howard 
.b. jones""condenser cleaner" ". The first result should be a link to the ad 
in a 1922 "Wireless Age"..  Looks like a wire loop to me.

73

Tom
WB3AKD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
To: "Michael Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>
Cc: <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; "Ralph Cameron" <ramcam at magma.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] "condenser cleaners"


> Could well be. Pretty sophisticated, requiring some radio knowlege, if it
> was.
>
> On "condenser cleaners" I don't know from the thread whether the reference
> was to a brush or a liquid, but I've seen 20s and 30s radios with cast
> potmetal condensers. It is possible some of those alloys might grow "metal
> whiskers", especially in poorly climate controlled rural locations, and
> cease functioning.
>
> Something to clean them might actually have had a real function.
>
> FWIW,
>
> -John
>
> ================
>
>
>
>> My take on it is that it was a joke.  Mike W6MAB
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
>> To: "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "Michael Bittner" <mmab at cox.net>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>; 
>> "Ralph
>> Cameron" <ramcam at magma.ca>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 7:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] "condenser cleaners"
>>
>>
>> The pics Michael sent me were of a very real artifact, made out of shiny
>> metal.
>>
>> What is unclear to me is whether it was sold as a real thing to put 
>> inside
>> radios, or whether it was a joke.
>>
>> There were a lot of gag gifts and trinkets sold then as now. It's 
>> actually
>> fun to go to antique flea markets, like Brimfield, and look at such
>> things.
>>
>> Quite obviously, radio was a giant mystery to most of the public back 
>> then
>> (and even now). Very few knew how it worked, beyond being able to find a
>> broadcast. Not very different than now really. Do you know, in detail, 
>> how
>> a cell phone or 'puter works? I sure don't.
>>
>> FWIW,
>>
>> -John
>>
>> ================
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Michael Bittner <mmab at cox.net> wrote:
>>>> I have an actual Grid Leak Drip Pan. Made by Muter in Chicago. If
>>>> anyone
>>>> wants to see some pictures of it, please reply off list and I will
>>>> email
>>>> a
>>>> set of 4 jpegs of it. Mike Bittner, W6MAB
>>>
>>> I'd offer to send pics of my last case of Marconi Aerial Wax, but the
>>> last time word got out that I had some, the stock market tanked. (o:
>>>
>>> ~ Todd,  KA1KAQ/4
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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