Your boards are looking fantastic. To answer your question, no I did not remove anything for the cleaning. Set the receiver in the driveway. Soaked with Windex (except for meters), scrubbed with a paint brush, rinsed with water hose at light pressure, used the brush to help the rinse, (still stayed away from the meters), blew it dry as possible with compressed air with special attention on the pots and switches. Gave it three thorough washings of pots and switches with Deoxit, sprayed Faderlube in pots, dried again with compressed air. The real kicker for me was that it was mid-summer in Texas. My garage probabaly gets 120-130 degrees in the daytime. I left it in there for 2-3 days and had no concerns about water in transformers or anywhere else. It was hot to the touch. When I fired it up, almost all of the noise and hiss was gone. I believe it was because of the Deoxit cleaning of the controls. Anyway, that's pretty much it. If I did it in a cool climate, I would probably let it sit for a couple of weeks before firing it up.Progress!
I went ahead and sprayed down the mpx board phono and power amplifier boards with simple Green. A little scrub time and a bit of a rinse and blew them out with something called a sidekick baster. I use it to detail my cars. Blows filtered warm air at an insanely high rate to "blast" water out of edges and crevasses of a certain. Worked perfect for these boards.
I have a question for Steve. When you washed and windexed your unit. Did you disassemble anything?
Your boards are looking fantastic. To answer your question, no I did not remove anything for the cleaning. Set the receiver in the driveway. Soaked with Windex (except for meters), scrubbed with a paint brush, rinsed with water hose at light pressure, used the brush to help the rinse, (still stayed away from the meters), blew it dry as possible with compressed air with special attention on the pots and switches. Gave it three thorough washings of pots and switches with Deoxit, sprayed Faderlube in pots, dried again with compressed air. The real kicker for me was that it was mid-summer in Texas. My garage probabaly gets 120-130 degrees in the daytime. I left it in there for 2-3 days and had no concerns about water in transformers or anywhere else. It was hot to the touch. When I fired it up, almost all of the noise and hiss was gone. I believe it was because of the Deoxit cleaning of the controls. Anyway, that's pretty much it. If I did it in a cool climate, I would probably let it sit for a couple of weeks before firing it up.
Steve
Look at the tone board!
That's it. You might also want to get some Caig Faderlube F5 to follow the D5 in the pots. Then blow it out with compressed air to get rid of the excess liquid.There are so many variations of Deoxit. Is this the right one to get?
https://www.amazon.com/DeOxit-Clean...UTF8&qid=1494246790&sr=8-2&keywords=deoxit+d5
That's it. You might also want to get some Caig Faderlube F5 to follow the D5 in the pots. Then blow it out with compressed air to get rid of the excess liquid.
THanks, i called my local shack to see if they had it but they said they aren't getting any for two or three weeks... so much for trying to buy local :/
That ought to work fine.
I have the WESD51 and it works great for me. The only difference as far as I can tell is the digital display.