Re: [IRCA] Sticky Eton radios

[Russ Johnson <radiok3pi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow I thought it was just me. 
I ruined an e-100 trying to clean/un sticky it.  I had it in proximity to my exercise equipment and thought when I sprayed eqt with cleaner each day, I was getting it on radio. 

I recently put my next e-100 in zip lock with small cut outs for controls I need. 

Guessing it wasn't the cleaner after all. 

I tried everything on the other one with zero results. 




> On Jan 1, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Dennis Gibson <wb6tnb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> My Eton E-10, E-100 and Grundig G8 all have this problem. I've tried everything I can think of and nothing has worked.  
> 
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>> On Jan 1, 2015, at 11:13 AM, James Renfrew <jim.renfrew@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Jim Renfrew, Clarendon NY
>> 
>> OK, it's cleaning day in the office/shack and I put my hands on my Eton E-1
>> radio for the first time in a while, and - yuck! - the thing is as sticky
>> as a honey jar.  Nothing was spilled on it, just seems to be ambient dust..
>> The screen is clean, as are the dials, but the whole case, back, front and
>> sides is like pine tar.  I guess this might be helpful for keeping the
>> radio in hand on a Newfoundland beach during a gale, or an Oregon cliff
>> with 50 mph winds, or leaning over the railing to null Tierra del Fuego
>> just so on a Falklands cruise, but not too useful otherwise!  I tried a
>> glass cleaner, then alcohol, and nothing seems to be working.  Has anyone
>> else run into this?  And what would work to clean it?  Soaking the whole
>> radio in bleach overnight?  Sandblasting?  Muriatic acid?  High SPF cocoa
>> butter?  Help!  And thanks!
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