My Grundig S350 was accidently left out in the rain where I had been doing some yard work. The rain was a steady down-pour, lasting 2 days, before I had realized the mishap.
At first the radio would not power on. I proceeded to dry it out in the oven for 5 minutes, at 150 F and this seemed to do a good job removing much of the moisture allowing me to get only FM, initially
Then I tried removing the back and spraying "Electronic Cleaner" (Radio Shack product) over the circuitry to displace the moisture and then reassembling and found that now "only" the SW bands would come in,
to my surprise
After allowing the radio to set up over night, I noticed that now the radio will not even power on at all.
Is there any easy self-fix that can be done to get the radio working again? I also tried depressing the reset button several times.
Radio was bought new, 2 1/2 years ago, from Radio Shack and was in perfect working order before the mishap.
Thanks/Steven
Is there any easy self-fix that can be done to get the radio working again?
Nope. I'll bet you have some corrosion inside the switch itself.
Unless you can disassemble that you will have to send it in. If the switch had metal contacts, you could try just a tiny shot of cleaner in the switch, then work it off and on.
If you are able to get to the switchs' contacts, you can short those and see if the radio powers up. Just make sure that you have the right connections.
Bad idea bout wpraying it down with cleaner. If that suff gets in the coild or other parts like the tiny tuning capacitor, it can melt together inside, or at least cause it to be off frequency.
Good luck,
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