| Onan Cleaning [message #96081] |
Mon, 16 August 2010 13:51  |
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cbwoodsr
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How do you clean one these guys??
Mine is extremely dirty/etc.
Need to spray it off, but didnt know about the gen part..
Thankx
CBWood
77 Kingslay
MWC OK
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| Re: Onan Cleaning [message #96082 is a reply to message #96081] |
Mon, 16 August 2010 13:54  |
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mike miller
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| CBWoodSR wrote on Mon, 16 August 2010 11:51 |
How do you clean one these guys??
Mine is extremely dirty/etc.
Need to spray it off, but didnt know about the gen part..
Thankx
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Do not use water to clean the generator. Check the manual. I seem to remember it addressing cleaning of the generator. Effectively it needs to be "dry" cleaned.
Mike Miller -- Hillsboro, OR -- on the Black list
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| Re: [GMCnet] Onan Cleaning [message #96092 is a reply to message #96088] |
Mon, 16 August 2010 14:43 |
Dennis S
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CB,
Duane advises in his Onan info not to get water on the the Onan. I used a shop vac and a plastic scraper to clean mine. Then some Simple Green sprayed on paper towels to get at the residual. Not perfect but much improved.
If you do take a hose to it -- please let us know how it works out and what we need to protect to do it correctly.
Dennis Sexton
73 PD 230
Germantown, TN
USA
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wood <cbwoodsr@swbell.net>
To: gmclist@temp.gmcnet.org
Sent: Mon, Aug 16, 2010 2:37 pm
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] Onan Cleaning
checked the manual on bdub's site, doesnt say..
an we 'hose down' the generator part?
know we cant the gen part..
hankx
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BWood
7 Kingslay
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| Re: [GMCnet] Onan Cleaning [message #96129 is a reply to message #96110] |
Mon, 16 August 2010 17:59 |
Ken Henderson
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Don't anyone misunderstand: I DO NOT recommend washing the Onan.
But water won't necessarily destroy electronic equipment. The very first
microcomputer system I sold, in 1978, went into the "batching room" of a
rather decrepit redimix concrete plant. The batching room was almost
beneath the bunkers for the sand, gravel, and cement. Beside the computer
was the water column which indicated the weight of the redimix truck as the
materials were dumped into it.
After about 4 years, during which time everyone became 100% dependent upon
the program I wrote to compute the concrete mixtures, I received a call one
Monday morning: HELP!!!
Over the weekend, the weight indicator glass had broken and throughly doused
the computer, keyboard, and monitor, and their 4 year accumulation of the
materials necessary to set it in concrete.
With no spare available and the biggest redimix plant in middle GA
essentially shut down, I had to do SOMETHING. I disassembled everything,
down to the printed circuit boards, scrubbed them with soap, water, and a
stiff brush, and put them in a warm oven to dry.
The computer and keyboard, despite some residual set up concrete, came
immediately to life. The monitor, with its deflection coils, inductors, and
intricate circuits, didn't respond real well: It snapped, crackled, and
popped for quite a while before quieting down with a screen display about
1/2 size.
I delivered the system back to the plant in that condition and they resumed
deliveries. Over a couple of days, the monitor finished drying out and the
image slowly grew back to normal size.
Unfortunately, it took me another 3 years to convince them that they needed
to buy a new computer.
Oh yeah, that was a TRS-80 -- the original with 1 disk drive (cassette,
originally)! :-)
The next project was a radio station management package, which was
demonstrated all over the US in a GMC motorhome. (Content)
(I HAVE washed my Onan -- CAREFULLY)
Ken H.
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Mr.erf ERFisher <mr.erfisher@gmail.com>wrote:
> ntrol board getting damp might not be good, either...
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> > > Kelvin
> > It isn't just the control board and the points that you have to worry
> > about. You don't want to get water into the generator part of the
> engine.
> > It can soak into the windings and other parts and then burn up your
> > generator.
> ...
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| Re: Onan Cleaning [message #96295 is a reply to message #96081] |
Wed, 18 August 2010 08:25 |
kingd
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Re cleaning an Onan. I'd be careful with solvents, would not want to disolve insulation on any wiring. I would think hand washing with say Simple Green and water and LOTS of disposable rags/wipers would get the Onan looking presentable. I know electronics can be water washed, but the water should be deionized to help prevent growth of funny things under componemts (dendritic growth))(had to justify a DI water "plant" in previous life)
DAVE KING
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Re: Onan Cleaning [message #96297 is a reply to message #96295] |
Wed, 18 August 2010 08:33 |
stick miller
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If I ever get mine running right, I promise not to wash it.
I had a '55 Pontiac when I was in high school. I saved it from the scrapper - $25, as I recall. The engine was a greasy blob with everything from chicken feathers to kudzu. I carefully applied Gunk and cleaned it down to what remained of the paint. It never ran again.
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold
'84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Past Tents"
Americus, GA
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