[Hallicrafters] Tarn-X and silver

[Mark Shaum]

Rich mentions:

----- Original Message -----
>From: "Rich Oliver" <Rich.Oliver at lowell.edu>


> I use a similar product called Tarn-X.  It eats away the tarnish
> impressively fast; the catch is that it continues to eat away the
silver
> until you wash off the Tarn-X.  If you're not into replating get the
> stuff off fast!  Are you sure the "Silver Dip" doesn't do that, too?
>
> Cheers, Rich

Ah, this brings memories of using Tarn-X on a Heathkit SB-series wafer
switch as a teenager.  I discovered that the thin silver plating on the
contacts is indeed, thin.  The stuff removed all silver, leaving a nice
brass colored substrate to oxidize.  I had used it to clean up a much
more heavily silver plated final tank coil first and thought it would be
just the thing to improve my intermittant bandswitch.  Live, solder, and
learn.

If you use it on silver plated parts, polish it off and/or rinse it off
quickly.

I'm going to look for some of the Goddard's stuff and see how it does
with thin silver plate.  I am gathering quite the shoebox full of
boatanchor fixin' elixers.  Can't find restock for my antenna wax
though.

73! - Mark K9TR