28 Apr
2014
28 Apr
'14
10:39 p.m.
If you're willing to risk the UV issue, it seems that bright, direct
sunlight alone has a way of de-stanking a lot of things in this category.
If you have a lot of daylight, consider leaving your parts out in it. A
rainshower or two probably won't hurt, either.
And while I've never heard of it (for rubber), I can't see how packing any
of these parts in activated charcoal would ever cause damage. Obviously,
you need to severely restrict the ingress of carbon particles into the
mechanisms - but that taken care of, it's a totally safe process.
Cheesecloth as a barrier will probably get you there.
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net> wrote:
On Apr 28, 2014, at 12:40 , tony duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
IIRC thos cups do come apart. I think you can
stretch the rubber part and
free the lip of the plastic base cover. It's then obvious.
IIRC when I looked at them last, it looked like I could probably pop the
contents out of the cups, but one cup would be trapped on the cable unless
I desoldered one end. I was thinking of maybe popping them out, sealing
over sensitive openings like connectors, mic and speaker with kapton tape,
then packing the whole thing in activated carbon for a while to try to
leach out the stink. I'll also try wiping the cups with denatured ethanol.
I tried some isopropanol at work without much effect. I read one anecdote
online about ethanol working better than isopropanol for cleaning up
tobacco stank.
Destanking up the original cardboard box may be tougher, and I might just
junk it unless somebody with an insensitive nose wants it. :)
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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