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Michael Black[_2_] · July 12th 13, 12:53 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, wrote:

My R-390(not A)got drowned in seawater last year, during
the storm called Sandy . Now I don't know what to do with it...

It's kind of late now. You should have carefuly rinsed it out at the
time, getting into all the crevices, then let it dry carefully, usually by
putting it in the oven at a very low temperature for some hours.

Every so often the ham magazines would run articles about what to do with
equipment that fell into even salt water. I think Glen Zook did a piece in
CQ in the early seventies, that did deal with something as complicated as
the R390.

I once dragged home a stereo receiver that I found in a bank of snow, it
was suffering from some minor salt damage due to salt used for melting
ice. I rinsed it carefully and then popped it in the oven, and that got
rid of the salt, it ran for years.

Michael