From: bobf.at.mrp3.dot.com@testing.local   
      
   On 3/22/22 05:50, Peter Wieck wrote:   
   > Anything from spiders to wasps to fleas and more. Any radio that has spent   
   substantial time in a barn, basement, shed, garage or any other damp or   
   exposed area may well be inhabited by or infested with various small and   
   potentially painful critters.   
      
   etc.   
      
   yeah, the flux residue, various kinds of greases, wax coatings, and   
   potting material might actually taste good enough to bugs and rodents   
   for them to live off of it, and the spiders and scorpions and centipedes   
   (and fleas, in the case of rodent infestations) go where the food is.   
      
   Used musical equipment can sometimes be similarly mucked up.  I took an   
   old reverb unit (transistors though) apart and cleaned it all up really   
   well with electrical cleaner.  It stank like cigarettes deep inside.   
   Worked much better when I was done, that and a few re-soldered   
   connections.  Not pre-CBS fender (which would have been tubes) but early   
   1970's most likely.  Still has a good sound last I used it, which has   
   been a few years actually...   
      
   [single side through-hole circuit board, with parts quite some distance   
   apart from each other, that looks like it was designed using a French   
   Curve on a traditional drafting table]   
      
   so yeah washing out headache-inducing cigarette stench is is another   
   risk in rescuing old gear.  (and those sinus headaches are HORRIBLE)   
      
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