Sacrilege

[K5AHH]

--Wow, great job on that restoration. You certainly did more to that radio than I would have done, lol. Though it looks great and tons of tar and stuff were removed, is there any "lingering" smells? In other words, if an average non-smoker were to talk on it a while, could they tell if it was a rig that once belonged to a smoker? Just curious. Excellent work.

[N0SYA]

Adam I didn't clean the 765, I just posted the link after I had found it.

[K5AHH]

--Ok, no prob. Thanks for the link, though. HE did a good job, lol.

[G4ALA]

Whats wrong with smoking? Some say its good - kills off bugs.

Whats that? Oh! so it does... kills off people too.

If the "whisky and wimmin" dont get you the "cigareets and fast food" will.

Hand me a rosary!!!

John G4ALA

[G0GQK]

Didn't know you could buy Gaulois cigarettes in the US. When I was young and playful, I used to buy French and foreign cigarettes when there were small tobacconists, and smokers were not regarded as more anti-social than serial rapists. I used to get on the top deck of a trolley bus and puff out clouds of Gaulois smoke and passengers used to keep looking around to see who was creating the unusual smell. It was a sort of Peter Sellars breaking wind moment

Mel G0GQK

[KQ9J]

I get a kick out of the smoke-stained radios. The XYL and I smoke in the attached garage these days, but even when I used to smoke in the shack with an ashtray right next to the rigs they NEVER looked like that! But then again, at least once a year I wipe them down, open them up and blow out dust and stuff with the compressor, use some deoxit, and generally make them look all pretty. No electrical problems either, and some of the rigs are 30 and 40 years old! If the radio looked that bad, just imagine what the rest of the house looked like! YIKES....some people don't like to clean I guess.

[W9OE]

I get a kick out of the smoke-stained radios. The XYL and I smoke in the attached garage these days, but even when I used to smoke in the shack with an ashtray right next to the rigs they NEVER looked like that! But then again, at least once a year I wipe them down, open them up and blow out dust and stuff with the compressor, use some deoxit, and generally make them look all pretty. No electrical problems either, and some of the rigs are 30 and 40 years old! If the radio looked that bad, just imagine what the rest of the house looked like! YIKES....some people don't like to clean I guess.

You are 100% correct Bob...

It is no secret that smoking can leave a residue when it comes to your gear. However that radio had much more that just cigarette residue. That was just years of careless neglect, plain and simple.

[N5PVL]

I would have left the microphone as it was, and traded it off to MHZ for a clean one. - He could put it in his radio museum as a novelty piece.

I don't know about you guys - but I thought that the mike should have been preserved as it was, put under glass.

[N5PVL]

You are 100% correct Bob...

It is no secret that smoking can leave a residue when it comes to your gear. However that radio had much more that just cigarette residue. That was just years of careless neglect, plain and simple.

Do you figure that he must have been smoking pot, too?

I bet he didn't, though. That radio has all the earmarks of belonging to an amateur who is getting on in years. It wouldn't surprise me at all to discover that the owner was neglected too - during the years that it took him to coat that rig with tar and nicotine.

[WA6MHZ]

Well maybe he got it real CHEAP!!! It is WORTH the extra elbow grease to get a Fine radio like that CHEAP! Same deal with my Icom IC-575H. NO ONE wanted it because the CLOD that had it before used an electric engraver and KNAWED his phone number right in the dial plexiglass. They sold it to me for THIRTY FIVE BUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I restored it to nice (still not perfect though) condition and removed every bit of evidence of the engraver through LOTS of elbow grease and NOVUS #2 magic solution. That radio usually goes for around $700 on Ebay.

Maybe he paid $20 for the 765! I sure would, smoke and all! That is ALOT better radio than I have now! Anyone have a YEECHY GREASY STICKY Icom 765 for $20? $30?? Even $50?????