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I have one suggestion. The "canned air" dustoff sold in office-supply stores will expel cold liquid if you hold it upside-down when spraying. We use it for thermal shock tracking down intermittent failures. Used to get the exhaust-flange bolts loose on air-cooled VWs by alternating between freon (that was then) and PBlaster. The cold would shrink everything and open up cracks for the PBlaster to creep in . The force of the freon spray would drive away the loosened rust particles. Snapped-off exhaust flange bolts became a thing of the past. Safer for this knob than heat. And the D201s knobs are made from thermoset-type resin that won't care about solvents.

And yeah, this radio is in the same spot as the 1965 MG that was parked in a creek bed for years. Might be some stuff still usable. Just not a lot. No way it will ever be roadworthy again.

73

<blockquote data-quote="nomadradio" data-source="post: 787302" data-attributes="member: 22">I have one suggestion. The &quot;canned air&quot; dustoff sold in office-supply stores will expel cold liquid if you hold it upside-down when spraying. We use it for thermal shock tracking down intermittent failures. Used to get the exhaust-flange bolts loose on air-cooled VWs by alternating between freon (that was then) and PBlaster. The cold would shrink everything and open up cracks for the PBlaster to creep in . The force of the freon spray would drive away the loosened rust particles.&nbsp; Snapped-off exhaust flange bolts became a thing of the past. Safer for this knob than heat. And the D201s knobs are made from thermoset-type resin that won&#039;t care about solvents. And yeah, this radio is in the same spot as the 1965 MG that was parked in a creek bed for years. Might be some stuff still usable. Just not a lot. No way it will ever be roadworthy again.73</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nomadradio, post: 787302, member: 22"] I have one suggestion. The "canned air" dustoff sold in office-supply stores will expel cold liquid if you hold it upside-down when spraying. We use it for thermal shock tracking down intermittent failures. Used to get the exhaust-flange bolts loose on air-cooled VWs by alternating between freon (that was then) and PBlaster. The cold would shrink everything and open up cracks for the PBlaster to creep in . The force of the freon spray would drive away the loosened rust particles. Snapped-off exhaust flange bolts became a thing of the past. Safer for this knob than heat. And the D201s knobs are made from thermoset-type resin that won't care about solvents. And yeah, this radio is in the same spot as the 1965 MG that was parked in a creek bed for years. Might be some stuff still usable. Just not a lot. No way it will ever be roadworthy again. 73 [/QUOTE]

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