From: David Ross (ross_at_math.hawaii.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 19 1999 - 03:21:56 EDT
Steve wrote:
> Good point David, but where do "normal" folks get Deoxit? ;-) I agree
> something
> like that is better, but telling people this and having them not finding it
> usually just leaves them frustrated, and with their original problem, still.
I found a bottle at a local electronics/radio supply shop (not Radio Shack, who does do
contact cleaners but AFAIK no contact enhancers). Caig will sell direct (www.caig.com), but
possibly only in quantity (and a little goes a very long way - I've been on the same bottle for years).
BTW, I have to say that this is amazing stuff; I originally bought it to keep my old Alfa Spider alive. Electrical contacts corrode
very easily in the salt air here, and I used to have to manually polish
all the car's fuse contacts and ground points every 6 months or so, or else things would simply stop working. After spritzing all
the contacts with Deoxit (after the last cleaning), I've gone several
years with no sign of problem. I also use it on computer contacts, though there one has to be a bit careful - I once oversprayed by
quite a lot while doing the edge connector on a sound card, and it stopped working. After I (carefully) cleaned up the card and
resprayed the edge only, it worked fine.
- David
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