I remember when I was in the NAVY and I was stationed at NAS Memphis attending NAVY AT "A School". I was a lowly E-3 (Airman) in 1977. We received a post-Vietnam era surplus Collins S-Line and a complete KWM-2A station for the W4ODR club station. This equipment came from a Marine Base in Vietnam. They were very dirty, had been around smoker's and stunk to high heaven. I remember one Saturday afternoon in utter horror as a I watched the club's lead op, a Gunny Sergeant, take a garden hose with a spray nozzle, a bucket of liquid dishwashing soap-water, and stood there in a pair of "non-regulation rubber yard boots" with a big fat cigar in mouth, armed with the spray nozzle, barking orders and we scrubbed the Collins gear inside and out - spick & span. I remember going back to my barracks that evening knowing without a doubt in my mind that we just witnessed the destruction of a beautiful Collins station. But I dare not say a word contrary to the Gunny - he was a god - his word and orders were never to be questioned. After 7 days of air drying on the next Saturday, the gunny took each piece one at a time (with a big fat cigar in mouth) - visually inspected them, powered them up op checked what needed to be op checked and re-aligned the 75S3C, 32S1, KWM2A and the remote vfo. They worked perfectly and he bought us pizza and a 1/2 case of beer. I will never forget that lesson from that old Gunny. Thanks Art, 73 where ever you are these days, Don Jones KO7i
Message: 4 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:44:49 -0800 From: John Hudson <[email protected]> To: Morrell Siegel <[email protected]>, DRAKE LIST <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Drakelist] restoring Message-ID: <591DDEA1FDC6444DB993596115BD144CF0B2352636@VA3DIAXVS031.RED001.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I've sent this out before but looks like it could help again. Some years ago Hewlet Packard has their repair and calibration lab in Fullerton, CA. and I had the opportunity to visit the facility doing a walk through where they take equipment in for repair and all they do to bring the units up to speed and operational. It seems they make sure the unit is working and then take simple green and bathe the whole unit down. The unit was then scrubbed with brushes to get the big pieces off, then the unit is power washed with clean distilled water to remove all grease, girt, and whatever else was there. Once the unit is completely clean the equipment is placed in a large oven at 150-200 degs for several days unit the unit is completely dry. Once its dry the unit is again tested and any/all repairs, alignment and calibration was performed. Once the unit was done it looked brand-new. So the dishwasher is not a bad idea provided you don't use the soap, and not sure how simple green would work in a dishwasher. 73's, De WA6HYQ. _______________________________________________ Drakelist mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.zerobeat.net/mailman/listinfo/drakelist
