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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2008 - 12:46:04 EDT
I have accidentally dropped the end of a shore power cord into salt water a
couple of times. At my marina, they have ground fault protection at the dock
box, so any internal conductivity instantly trips the shore power breaker on the
dock. I found that the following process works well to get rid of the salt
and dry the connector. First, it the connector can be disassembled, do that. In
any case, immerse the parts in fresh water that has some Salt Away mixed in.
Then rinse in fresh water and dry in the sun or, better yet, place the nozzle
of a vacuum cleaner against the openings, wrap with some tape, turn on the
vacuum cleaner and go have lunch. The lowered pressure from the vacuum causes fast
evaporation of the water.
I have successfully used this vacuum process to dry our electronics, even a
lap top that got rained on. Put the item in a plastic bag, vacuum nozzle
inside, and give it some time.
When I worked in high tech we had electron microscopes. Before putting the
object into the microscope, it first went into a small sputtering machine for
gold plating. Before the sputtering process you had to pull a pretty high vacuum
with a special pump ( fomblin oil pump). Back in those days, watches often
got water inside and it would fog up the crystal from the inside so the watch
couldn't be read. A few seconds in the vacuum chamber removed any trace of
moisture. Same principal but much slower with a vacuum cleaner.
De Fever 41, done the loop, on our second go round. Boating 50 years, mostly
sail.
Jake
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