[R-390] Cleaning

Fri, 10 Jan 2003 8:51:23 -0500

As my old sea-daddy was wont to say - "Snuffy, I've gargled more salt water than you've sailed on." True! I was a dry land sailer.

Wayne - ex WA0DEB
> 
> From: "Jerry Kincade" <[email protected]>
> Date: 2003/01/10 Fri AM 07:27:27 EST
> To: "pete wokoun, sr." <[email protected]>,  <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [R-390] Cleaning
> 
> I definitely qualify as an old salt, Pete - retired from the Navy 22 years
> ago. Heck, I've probably wrung more salt water out of my socks than most
> people have sailed over, as the old saying goes. EPA rules do make a
> difference, I guess. They stocked 1,1,1 Trichloroethane in five gallon cans
> on my first ship. Nobody knew any better, they thought it was a safe
> alternative to carbon tetrachloride as a cleaning solvent. Ha.
> 
> BTW, I fixed my Line Level meter. It was easy to open (it's not one of the
> glowing types). The problem was an open 1180 ohm wire wound resistor.
> Bridged it with a 1200 ohm 1/8 watt carbon film type, works fine now. It's
> probably not perfectly calibrated any more, but it probably wasn't perfect
> before. Besides, it's just a VU meter. Thanks for the offer of help on it.
> 
> 73, Jerry W5KP   ex-KH6GQC
> 
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