I can confirm that Lowes is ceasing carrying it and moving to Liquid Electrical Tape (something that does not do well in this application as it tends to delaminate over time). Get it from your Lowes if you can now. (I have been putting in specific requests to the staff at several Lowes that they continue to stock it, but the morre requests, the more likely... especially if they hear that people are being referred to them for it) Other sources for the small bottle: http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/108-4095&CAWELAID=220198835 http://www.rshughes.com/products/054007_43906.html and http://www.powell.com/prod_search.p...TCHKOTE4oz http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/it...or-_-2GKR6 carries it in a 10 pack case, for over $100 Cheers,
BTW, at the battle this weekend, Mike Duffy had his Richelieu out of service, but brought a spanking new Eurgle 8 channel radio to the pond, looking for a ship to test it in. Scotchkoted it while we were setting up. Had it dried and reassembled when some guests showed up - he took the RX back apart to show the guests (now new members ;-) ) what the electronics looked like once coated. The 13 year old got to run the ship doing convoy runs, and after 6 runs, Mike told him to head for the far coast (across the lake) and zigzag to check control. At an estimated 225yds, he issued a call to return to port. Scotchkoted Eurgle performed flawlessly. No glitches in the club Altmark at all. Cheers,
My solution has worked for bismark and she was under 14' of water for a week, it is to put extensions on all your plugs, then place reciever in a baloon (good quality helium type) zip tie the balloon onto your extensions as close to the reciever as you can leaving lots of baloon neck open, then sueeze in some silicone into the neck, masage it around, squeeze in a little more to bulge it slightly, and zip tie the baloon close to the opening end on the neck now leaving a trapped BLOB of silicone in the balloon neck. let this cure (48 hours or so at least) before battling, and you have a custome sealed baggie that your reciever rests in, easy to cut off and remove, and does not void your warranty etc. for the nervous in the croud, put two baloons on but only fill the inside one's neck, a variation on this is to use bu-tac in the neck instead of sealant. use 3 zip ties with a continuous butack bulge cut in half by one of the zip ties and one at either end, making sure it is worked around wires also, works well. Bryan
We epoxy them in west system. Put them in the freezer while they harden to keep the heat off of the receiver.
Of course, the problem with epoxy is that it is a tad on the perrmanent side. If you screw something up, or if, say, the antenna wire breaks later, you have little hope of repair. With Scotchkote, it purns offf with a soldering iron when you unsolder - easy to repair through. Some of the specially designed silicone conformal coatings http://www.altex.com/MG-Chemicals-S...43193.aspx should work well, too, but I have not tried them (I have a couple of botles, but have not felt the need to try them whan Scotchkote works so well). With the Silicone conformal coatings, you will want a blacklight to check your coverage (many flouresce just for this purpose) - with Scotchkote, you can easily see what you have covered. I am not sure how well these hold up over time, and whether they may possibly delaminate like Liquid Electrical Tape. There is also Acrylic conformal coating http://www.altex.com/Acrylic-Lacque...43194.aspx which should work decently, if the surface is clean, etc. Nice thing about the Scotchkote is that it agressively bonds without cleaning the surface, remains flexible(ish), and does not delaminate. And is easily repairable. Cheers
