[R-390] Wiring harness removal and cleaning

[Tisha Hayes]

I have a big orange colored shot-filled mallet that I labeled
Control-Alt-Delete.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Steve Toth <stoth47 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Tisha wrote:
> "Lots of the flat metalwork that may be dinged up or bent can be pulled off
> and re-flattened with a hammer and a hard surface. Some of the metalworking
> wizards could do even more."
>
> For the bent panels:  I removed mine and then used a rubber mallet to
> pound them out flat.  Laid them on a piece of plywood on the concrete
> garage floor.  Checked them again on the flattest piece of floor by laying
> them on a towel and gently tapped them again.  They came out OK with no
> mars, dents, dings or scrapes.  For side and top-bottom panel dents and
> dings use a shop hammer and gently tap the ding repeatedly while laying the
> panel on a flat surface or using a small piece of steel for a back stop
> until it smoothes out.
>
> - Steve
> "Always look for a positive solution then Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome"
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Mon, 9/8/14, Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [R-390] Wiring harness removal and cleaning
>  To: "R390A" <R-390 at mailman.qth.net>
>  Date: Monday, September 8, 2014, 9:32 AM
>
>  Do not be too worried about using
>  distilled water. Chuck's videos show the
>  garden hose cleaning method of working on the radio and it
>  is just fine.
>
>  Since you are pulling the decks and modules for individual
>  cleaning and
>  hopefully removing the panel meters you can treat the
>  chassis like one big
>  object for cleaning.
>
>  Hot soapy water, lots of it, a soft scrub brush or paint
>  brush and a bit of
>  scrubbing power similar to doing pots and pans. Work the hot
>  soapy water
>  into all spots, clean out the bushings and all of the
>  mechanicals on the
>  front panel of dead grease and dirt. Rinse it all down with
>  a garden hose
>  (blast things a bit if you like).
>
>  At the end you could use a gallon of distilled water to just
>  do a
>  splashdown rinse of the chassis to chase away any
>  mineral-laden water. Blow
>  it out with compressed air, then either leave it in the hot
>  sun for a day
>  or two or bake it gently in an oven at around 120 F for a
>  few hours.
>
>  Be nice to the potentiometers on the front wiring harness if
>  you can. After
>  things dry they might like a little bit of De-Ox-It, the
>  same thing with
>  the connector contacts.
>
>  Since these radios were probably exposed to much worse than
>  what you are
>  going to do to them with the bath, what's the net-loss?
>
>  Lots of the flat metalwork that may be dinged up or bent can
>  be pulled off
>  and re-flattened with a hammer and a hard surface. Some of
>  the metalworking
>  wizards could do even more.
>
>  --
>  Ms. Tisha Hayes. AA4HA
>
>  *""It is not because things are difficult that we dare not
>  venture. It is
>  because we dare not venture that they are difficult."
>  -Seneca"*
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-- 
Ms. Tisha Hayes. AA4HA

*""It is not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It is
because we dare not venture that they are difficult." -Seneca"*