Just a thought on washing a VHF radio to get the salt off. I would suggest NOT running it under a faucet but rather soaking it in the basin or a bucket. I just don't know what the force of running water is out of a faucet. Why risk excessive water pressure concentrated in a narrow stream forcing itself into the innards? Also be careful about aggressive swishing around of the radio in the water. Be gentle and avoid too much agitated movement of the radio under water while washing. This may be what did in your radio, Jack. You talked about running water on it in public restrooms after salt water exposure. Could be the water force was such that some water forced itself past the gaskets. I have one of those Canon Elph Sports camera that is waterproof. The instructions say wash by soaking BUT NOT to swish the camera around a lot, just gentle motions. I know the force of a wave can be great and being underwater in a roll puts the radio under quite a lot of water pressure. But why take a risk when washing the thing of having too concentrated a jet of water from a faucet or creating washing machine level agitation in swishing it around too much? I suppose a trickle from a faucet would be okay. But just a trickle. ralph diaz ralph diaz wrote: -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 25 2000 - 06:09:25 PDT
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