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Mr. Luddite

On 4/8/2014 9:14 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:01:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Tuesday, April 8, 2014 5:30:53 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:

I couldn't do it. I stuck it in the sink, dosed it with dish detergent

and washed it with a heavy hot water spray and a soft brush. Everything

in it got soaking wet, but it's now clean as a whistle. Hit it with a

hair drying for about 15 minutes and am now going to let it sit for a

few days before putting power to it. Hopefully it won't blow up.

I'll report the outcome.

You can warm your oven up to about 150 degrees, turn it off, the put the amp in there. As long as there's no plastic parts to warp (like power meter faces) it will not hurt the electronics and will help dry them out. It would still be good to give it some time to completely dry out. The biggest worry for me would be water in the transformer. Oh, and pull the AC fuse that's probably on a screw-in or bayonet holder on the back panel to let it dry.

If you have an issue, it can still be brought back to life by a competent tech. Hang on to it!

Back when it was worth fixing a keyboard we would wash them with
purple soap solution in a sprayer (basically the IBM version of Simple
Green), blow it out with a vacuum cleaner and put it in the car to dry
it.
That also worked to bake epoxy and make it set quicker.
(AKA the Florida solar oven)

In total violation of Navy PMS procedures I used to take the exciter
racks out of 100,000 watt transmitters and wash them in a deep sink.
Old equipment but after a bath/shower and then drying completely they
were much easier to tune up and calibrate. It also became easier to
determine caps that were out of spec or leaking. The CO in charge of
the transmitter site caught me doing it one day and nearly flipped out
until I showed him that it was actually discussed in the transmitter
manufactures tech notes. Next thing I knew they sent me to PMS
Coordinator school in Norfolk.

The Carver will be fine. The Navy transmitters were AN/FRT-40s and
looked like this:

http://www.virhistory.com/navy/commsta/bouk/bouk-pag-01.jpg