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

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:29:54 -0500, 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

Activated charcoal would work better than sodium bicarbonate.

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

On 25 Sep 2005 11:20:40 -0700, "Les" wrote:



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

The deposits are bad for switch contacts and deadly on Daven step
attenuators used widely in old-fashioned mixing desks. Also very bad
on tape heads.

David wrote:
On 25 Sep 2005 11:20:40 -0700, "Les" wrote:



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

The deposits are bad for switch contacts and deadly on Daven step
attenuators used widely in old-fashioned mixing desks. Also very bad
on tape heads.

Where do you find tape heads and daven step attenuators on a shortwave
receiver? Oh, I know that some portables have a tape recorder unit, but
I'm talking a "real" shortwave receiver?

All of you idiots need to find another hobby or a job that keeps you
busier.

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

Les wrote:

All of you idiots need to find another hobby or a job that keeps you
busier.


Taking lessons from the dxAce book of manners? Why? You are smarter than
that.


mike

www.devilfinder.com The damage cigarette smoke does to electronics
cuhulin

You wouldn't open up your radio and dump some cigarette ashes around in
there and then put the radio back together and use it,would you? The
very tiny particles of cigarette smoke gets into everything that isn't
hermetically sealed.Not good for any kinds of radios at all.
cuhulin