I sold a Drake C Line to a ham friend a few years back. It had been fully functional for me for months and the fellow came over to pick them up. I fired them both up in front of him, on my antenna and went everywhere, all bands, everything worked - HAD FUN!
He carried them out to his truck (smiling), they went on the passenger seats with towels over them. I get a phone call an hour after he left (here), him wondering why this receiver is DED. Nothing - flat out unresponsive. My jaw hit the floor. Something happened in the cool down period at my place, during the truck ride, or upon setup on his side. He's an honest and smart ham. I learned never to assume any cause nor affect with things so mechanical in nature. My guess - the deoxit may seem like a red flag but it could be soooo many other things... Steve Berg wa9jml at tbc.net Tue Mar 2 22:18:41 EST 2010 I have used de-oxit many times on old National, and Clegg equipment, both on switches and on pots. So far, I have had no trouble from it. I may even have saturated the wafers on a switch or two in the process to no ill effects. I am much more careful with it now, though. Many of these components are almost if not impossible to find now, and I don't want to take any unnecessary chances in wrecking something. Steve WA9JML _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
