"EricJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Possibly. Obviously, it is not possible to seal up the rig. My reasoning was that the inside of the rig is going to be close to dead air when the rig is cold allowing that air to be more saturated with the chemistry involved. When the rig is on, the heated air will rise and any contamination in the shack will not remain in the enclosure long enough to do any damage. We could go round and round on this, but I figured it's worth the try...and it's free.
It might even be possible to figure out what is needed to grab the sulfur and other contaminants out of the air. Maybe a chunk of something more aggressive than a wimpy little paper strip would be needed. I don't know. I'd be interested to know why all three of my Drake rigs have much more corrosion than my much older SW-54 receiver. Maybe the SW-54 spent most of its life packed away in a sealed trunk. Or maybe it lived in a less polluted region of the country for most of its life. Or maybe the copper plating was higher quality or thicker. Or maybe the underlying steel chassis was treated in some different way first. I enjoyed hearing about the chrome plated DX-100. Before reading that I had given momentary thought to how one might carefully remove all the components from, say, a 2-B and having it replated. Maybe when restored 2-Bs are going for a couple of $kilobucks on ebay I'll consider it. For 150 bucks, its easier to just use the receiver and not look inside the cabinet too much. Eric KE6US www.ke6us.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 9:11 AM To: EricJ Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [drakelist] cleaning copper On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, EricJ wrote: > "EricJ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist > gang > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 3M also makes some anti-tarnish strips. These are paper impregnated > with a chemical that are meant to be stuck in the drawer with jewelry > or whatever you are protecting. I'm going to tape one inside one of > the receivers and see if I can tell any difference after 6 months or > so. If it does something useful, I'll tape one in all the copper chassis rigs. Those strips may not work so well unless you seal the rig in an air-tight bag. A friend of mine makes jewelry out of silver and she puts those strips in little ziploc bags for the reasons we're talking about here. But if you don't keep the bag closed the strips don't help :-( hope this helps...... -- 73 Jason N1SU http://n1su.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: www.zerobeat.net - sponsored by www.tlchost.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
