[Milsurplus] Way OT: Is soot corrosive?

[Peter Gottlieb]

Corrosive AND conductive. 


Peter

> On Mar 8, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A local ham had a small fire in his house and soot got over ( and in )
> everything.   He wrote me
> 
> "I want to know if my ham gear is cleaned up will residue soot being
> corrosive eat the boards."
> 
> He runs plastic Yaewoodcom type radios. I'd assume if soot is corrosive and
> the boards in the radios lack conformal coating the answer is probably yes,
> but that's a guess.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Mark K3MSB
> 
> Sent from my Android phone
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