[Hallicrafters] cleaning rotary switches? where's that eraser?

[Troglodite at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/21/06 12:29:10 PM Central Daylight Time,  
radiocompass at yahoo.com writes:

> I'd hesitate to use it on a small rotary bandswitch
>  though.  It's too thick and would just shred in the
> stator  contact.
 
Cigarette rolling paper works well, but you can no longer find it in  
anything but specialty stores. It's been classified as "drug paraphrenalia" or  some 
such dumb thing. Used to work well for patching speaker cones too, but I  have 
had to switch to tea bag paper for that purpose.
 
73,
 
Doug Moore KB9TMY