[Boatanchors] Dark deposits on rotary switch wafers

Kenneth Grimm grimm at sbc.edu
Mon Aug 13 10:25:29 EDT 2018


  "..But we're talking about radio hardware, not a tea service or
the Stanly Cup..."

I couldn't agree more!

Deoxit D5 is all you need.  Please avoid destroying a perfectly good switch
by using a Dremel tool.  With a brute force treatment like that one little
slip and.....
Deoxit won't make it shine, but WILL keep it working if all that is wrong
is a coating of silver oxide (which is a conductor anyway).

73,
-- 
Ken - K4XL
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