I haven't used Stabilant 22 so cannot speak to it's use, but have been using
Deoxit for several years. It has been almost miraculous on many different
items including Micor pins, squelch/ volume controls, and other items that had
been contact cleaned many times with little effect. I am very pleased with it.
Jon WA6KLB
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, "w9srv" <tgundo2...@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys!
>
> I am in the middle of rebuilding a receive site for one of the area repeaters
> and have come across some interesting "Pin Gunk". I've been told that
> Motorola techs years ago used to apply some kind of "goo" to help with the
> connection on all the backplane pins, etc, but I don't know if this is what
> that is. This receive site has been developing some intermittant issues on
> several fronts, and maybe this explains them.
>
> The problem with this gunk is that is is non-conductive and a real bugger to
> clean off. DeOxit seems to work the best. I made this quick video last night
> showing this on the pins of the power control board. Here is the link to the
> video:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmWumkQetdY
>
> Has anyone else ever come across this? Are there any other steps other than
> cleaning it off to ensure it will not be another problem in the future?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tom
> W9SRV
>
