[MRCA] Contact cleaner query

[Peter Gottlieb]

CAS 8052-41-3 shows as Stoddard solvent, 64742-89-7 is called naphtha. Not sure the exact difference or if it is meaningful. 


Peter

> On Dec 15, 2015, at 2:29 PM, DSP3 <jeepp at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> Gentlemen,
> 
> I use De-Oxit D5 as my standard contact cleaner.  Its getting rather expensive, of late, and I looked around for a suitable substitute.  Also, I wonder if De-Oxit is part of the audiophile and curator/purist's conspiracy for pricing?  Not being either a chemist or metallurgist, and only a smattering of corrosion control engineering, I ask anyone here if the over-the-counter industrial contact and switch cleaner Ideal #40-610 product might be an acceptable substitute product?  I got two BIG spray cans w/ nozzle (like De-Oxit) from an electrical supply house for $7 each.   Lowe's has it, too.  Most older MIL gear doesn't have exotic plastics, etc. so maybe OK for older stuff, at least?  
> 
> Alphatic hydrocarbon-based solvent.
> 
> Contains alphatic petroleum solvent 64742-89-7, isopropol alchohol 67-63-0 1,1 diflouroethane propellant 75-37-6. 
> 
> certified for circuit breakers, electronic relays, switches, terminals, sensors, printed circuit boards, motor controls.  
> 
> Hmmmm,   De-Oxit D5 has same alphatic hydrocarbon but spec # is 8052-41-3, also exact same diflouroethane propellant.
> 
> Looks like the difference is the presence of isoprop alcohol in the Ideal product.
> 
> Jeep - K3HVG
> 
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