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Re: Lesson: Don't rely on GFCI plugs
Posted By: Vic Roy In Response To: Re: Lesson: Don't rely on GFCI plugs (Rawleigh)
Date: Thursday, 28 April 2005, at 6:18 p.m.
One of the GFCI in my open side boathouse kept tripping and since it was way up there, had the electrician that rewired the place come check it out. Well, the ants had built a big house in the box it was in. Killed the ants, put a new one in, and all is well. Now, in addition to squirting CX on all the switches and outlets out there, now shoot a little Raid Ant Killer too.
And yet another Corrosion X story. (OK, OK, you don't have to read it if you are sick of CX stories). I had an old Raytheon RDF that I inherieted with an old boat about 30 years ago - the kind with the antenna on top that you turn to find the direction to a low freq. beacon. I kept it at the office to listen to the weather since it had a few crystals tuned to the VHF weather cannels. Anyway, it got stuck in a box when we were changing out the carpet in our building years ago and yesterday the office mgr. was throwing stuff out of storage and asked me if she could throw out the RDF. Of course I said no, threw it in the back of the turck and brought it home. Fond memories with that green machine.
Uses four "D" flashlight batteries, and they were mush, leaked bad, but not into the guts. Took them out, cleaned the area up with CX, put some new ones in, nothing, dead.
Sooooooo. . . Shot the interior circuit boards and the exterior knobs with CX, let it sit overnight, and this afternoon it works like new.
It's going to the camp tomorrow with me & the Bride for a long weekend, and I'll listen to the LSU vs. Vandy baseball games on it. Magic in a can.
UV
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