[Milsurplus] Item 370439487866 on eBay

[Peter Gottlieb]

  I've had some bad experiences with trichlorethylene and plastics, so be 
careful using it.

It's a myth that you can't buy it, I did so about a month ago.  The reason it is 
watched and somewhat restricted is due to problems like what happened in Woburn, 
MA a couple of decades ago.  It doesn't take a whole lot getting into the 
drinking water to cause some very serious health effects.  Used carefully and in 
small quantities it can be entirely safe, but get a few PPM in the drinking 
water and that's an entirely different matter.

Slower, but I get that varnish off with q-tips and isopropanol.

What is it with that MFP varnish, anyway?  On certain surfaces it seems to 
*attract* mold!

Peter


On 10/1/2010 12:31 AM, Edward Greeley wrote:
> Has anyone seen the BC-348-R that popped up on eBay a few hours ago?
>
> It looks pretty rough externally, like maybe it's been stored in a very
> humid environment. Knobs look sorta corroded, but then they ARE pot
> metal (or cast AL), so...
>
> Internally, it looks completely unmolested, un-hammified, and as near as
> I can tell from the numerous pix it is nearly or totally original. It
> even has its DM-28 and original male power input connector! There are
> some missing and at least one incorrect tubes, and the NE-48(?) is
> missing, but those are trivial items.
>
> Depending on how "perfect" one might want to make it, it looks like it
> could be fairly decently restored with a careful touch-up of the panel,
> and a refinishing job on the knobs. The "baddest" part of the external
> resto would be the lousy looking plastic nomenclature plate. I have made
> SOME of those look like (almost) new by carefully cleaning them with
> trichlorethylene (yes, I still have a quart or two despite the EPA's
> nannies best efforts) to remove the MFP varnish with which they are
> often sprayed. The plate on this -348 looks like it has a coat of MFP,
> and I THINK it would clean up nicely.
>
> Needless to say, the crapola Micamold caps would have to go...
>
> Anyway, I hope someone on this list grabs it to keep it out of the hands
> of some self-styled "improver/upgrader".
>
> Ed Greeley
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