[Hallicrafters] Tarn-X and silver

[George KB2Z]

Mark, Is that the wax with the 2dB, or 3dB gain? George

At 06:21 PM 2/17/05 -0600, you wrote:

>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
>
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