[Joeztech]

Morzh;

Yes, I do understand about not using too strong a force of air when dealing with tuning capacitors. I read in another thread that some people have damaged the trimmer mica of the trimmer capacitors by using too much air force. Your experience shows that plain detergent and water is a good cleaner as with most items. Since I have already removed it from the chassis, this should not be too difficult to do.

I did speak with my youngest son and found out that he has an ultrasonic cleaner. The only precaution is that there is a plastic bowl that has to be used when cleaning items in it in order to not damage the metal sink in the cleaner. Due to the tiny rapid vibrations, any metal object that comes into contact with the metal sink of the cleaner can cause erosion of its metal and then corrosion will set in and eventually destroy the ultrasonic cleaner. Now that I know how to use it, I may give the water and detergent approach a try. We have well water which includes a rather high salt content plus other minerals and we treat our water with chlorine for sanitation. For cleaning the tuning capacitor, I may substitute some distilled water since it has no contaminants in it just to be safe.

Thanks for your input.

Joe