RadioBanter - View Single Post - Reunited with my first radio love courtesy of eBay. But smokey!

September 25th 05, 07:20 PM

wrote:
If you can take the chassis out of the radio's case without too much
trouble,wash the case throughly a few times and let the chassis sit in
an airtight container with baking soda.No guarantee you will ever get
rid of all of the smoky odor.Cigarette smoke is very bad for electronic
parts in radios,computers,all kinds of electronic thingys and it can
greatly shorten the lifespan of all things electronic.
cuhulin

Once again the CooKoo of the list posts about something he knows little
of.

Yes, cigarettes are bad for your health, but I've not seen any radios
of the 50's 60's tube era that were "damaged" by smoke/nicotine.
Hammarlund SP-600's and R-390 series receivers were literally covered
with a golden brown coating of nicotine and continued to work in spite
of it.

Cuhulin, you actually need to get an antenna and a real shortwave
receiver and then study real hard before you unleash those two peas
that rattle around inside your malformed skull.

Les Locklear
Monitoring since ' 57
Located on the Gulf of Mexico
Bendix R-1051B/URR
Hallicrafters SX-62A
Hammarlund SP-600JX-14
Kiwa Modified Icom R75
RCA CR-88A
http://www.hammarlund.info/homepage.html