[Milsurplus] Should I really go ahead and buy this? Will it help?

[Michael]

Good grief!  That is just plain ridiculous!  

It's also invalid.  With a proper preparation of the base material (edge
treatment, polishing et al), electroplating is *the* way to go because it IS
uniform.  At the same time, it doesn't take a lot to wipe off a shoddy
plating job on the first or second plug insertion/removal cycle and there's
nothing to indicate to me that it wouldn't be any better than second rate.
Maybe third.

And, as has been mentioned by another, what about the house wiring.  Or, for
that matter, everything going right back to the power plant including the
power plant itself?  Why has no one decided that what's needed is a
stabilized, regulated, gold plated, made from the purest oxygen free copper
sine wave line isolator of the UPS sort so the building power is merely
maintaining the internal batteries rather than actually supplying power to
the system.  That way the whole system is independent of the wall socket
except as noted.  Of course, a whole new battery technology would be needed
(fuel cells?) since even Lithium wouldn't be good enough.

Gotta love 'em.  

Best regards,
 
Michael, WH7HG BL01xh
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