Gold gets goop from the air on it. Very small particles of cooking grease over a long period of time. Soot from cigarette smoke.
Air is not pure just because you can see through it. There is a small charge on the contacts, and one side will attract particle out of the air. This will coat gold the same way, if a lot slower, as stuff on my glasses that needs to be washed off. I've sometimes used a soft cloth saturated with alcohol-based eyeglass cleaner to clean contacts. 73, Guy. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Thomas Horsten <[email protected]> wrote: > Don, > > Agree with the paper strips as a cleaning method, but I don't think there's > any case for using Deoxit on gold contacts - the gold shouldn't oxidize - > although it might dissolve some kinds of dirt that the paper doesn't get, > who knows.. but a few drops of ethanol on a paper strip would probably be > just as good. > > 73, Thomas M0TRN > > On 4 September 2012 17:07, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > In addition, many recommend using DeOxit on the contacts after > > cleaning. Just a drop will do. > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
