{"id":42325,"date":"2020-03-15T07:52:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42325"},"modified":"2020-03-15T07:52:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T11:52:57","slug":"panasonic-rf-1405-mark-seeks-advice-cleaning-handle-on-thrift-store-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/panasonic-rf-1405-mark-seeks-advice-cleaning-handle-on-thrift-store-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic RF-1405: Mark seeks advice cleaning handle on thrift store find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42326\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-300x195.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-768x500.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-624x406.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Going to a local UK charity shop will usually turn up a grim selection of romance novels, old DVD box sets and children&#8217;s toys. They do a brisk trade in clothing, shoes and bags, but technology often consists of dire examples of cheap DVD players, phone cases, and small TVs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s those very occasional gems that keep me going back.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday a Panasonic radio turned up, and being a canny eBay savvy charity, they put a proper price tag on it! Aside from a scratchy volume control which was easily sorted, it seems to work fine. Spanning the whole of shortwave on a single band selection makes for tricky use of the big tuning knob, but back in the eighties I suspect this wasn&#8217;t a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Finger marks and general grime have cleaned up fine, but the handle is strangely marked, and after fruitless cleaning with cotton pads and a little water I&#8217;m wondering if this is some kind of oxidation below the shiny surface.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-Handle.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-42327\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-Handle-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-Handle-768x1025.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-Handle-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-Handle-624x832.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Panasonic-RF-1405-Handle.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m wondering if other readers are familiar with this kind of problem?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What a great score at the thrift store, Mark! I have several receivers of the same era that have the same issue on their chrome\/metal parts. It&#8217;s almost as if the chrome\/metallic finish is pitted in some way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers:<\/strong> Do you know how Mark could safely clean the marks off of the chrome finish on the handle of his RF-1405?<\/p>\n<p>FYI, here&#8217;s a video of Mark&#8217;s RF-1405 tuned to CRI:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vlI1SeH3-48?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mark, you certainly snagged a great radio at the thrift store!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes: Going to a local UK charity shop will usually turn up a grim selection of romance novels, old DVD box sets and children&#8217;s toys. They do a brisk trade in clothing, shoes and bags, but technology often consists of dire examples of cheap DVD players, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[627,3,43],"tags":[2248,5458,2642,8369,8368,7672],"class_list":["post-42325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-cleaning-radios","tag-mark-hirst","tag-panasonic","tag-panasonic-rf-1405","tag-rf-1405","tag-thrift-store-finds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-b0F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14196,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/mikes-thrift-store-find-a-panasonic-rf-888\/","url_meta":{"origin":42325,"position":0},"title":"Mike&#8217;s thrift store find: a Panasonic RF-888","author":"Thomas","date":"July 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"SWLing Post contributor Mike (K8RAT) writes: I happened upon a good find of a vintage radio recently when I visited my local Goodwill store in a small city in Ohio. 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