[Hallicrafters] Tarn-X and silver

[Greg Mijal]

FYI
Cream of Tartar works well on silver and is cheaper than tarn-x.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
in sunny Feenix
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George KB2Z" <Thermionic_Emission at earthlink.net>
To: "hallicrafters-mailman.qth.net" <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Tarn-X and silver


> 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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