[ARC5] Contact cleaner query
DSP3
jeepp at comcast.net
Tue Dec 15 14:37:27 EST 2015
This post is crossed with others, but.......
Gentlemen,
I use De-Oxit D5 as my standard contact cleaner. Its getting rather
expensive, of late, and I looked around for a suitable substitute.
Also, I wonder if De-Oxit is part of the audiophile and curator/purist's
conspiracy for pricing? Not being either a chemist or metallurgist, and
only a smattering of corrosion control engineering, I ask anyone here if
the over-the-counter industrial contact and switch cleaner Ideal #40-610
product might be an acceptable substitute product? I got two BIG spray
cans w/ nozzle (like De-Oxit) from an electrical supply house for $7
each. Lowe's has it, too. Most older MIL gear doesn't have exotic
plastics, etc. so maybe OK for older stuff, at least?
Alphatic hydrocarbon-based solvent.
Contains alphatic petroleum solvent 64742-89-7, isopropol alchohol
67-63-0 1,1 diflouroethane propellant 75-37-6.
certified for circuit breakers, electronic relays, switches, terminals,
sensors, printed circuit boards, motor controls.
Hmmmm, De-Oxit D5 has same alphatic hydrocarbon but spec # is
8052-41-3, also exact same diflouroethane propellant.
Looks like the difference is the presence of isoprop alcohol in the
Ideal product.
Jeep - K3HVG
More information about the ARC5
mailing list