Thanks Mike and Ken
I must still have some reservation about cleaners because of the
temporary job they did on TV tuners. I guess it is about time to
throw out my tube of General Cement TUNERLUBE.
I will check out your suggestions.
Thanks for the help.
Gran K6RIF
At 08:43 AM 10/30/2008, you wrote:
At 08:22 AM 10/30/2008, Gran Clark wrote:
>If the pins are silver plated would moth balls be in
>order? Remember the moth balls in the Centralab switch boxes to
>prevent oxidation?
<---I agree with Mike about the contact cleaner - I used to have some
issues with one of my MastrII repeater connectors too until I cleaned
'em. Haven't had a problem in many years since.
And on a side note - the contacts aren't silver plated, they're
nickle plated. If they were silver then oxidation wouldn't be a
problem as silver oxide is an excellent conductor of electricity!
(why do you think they silver plate high current RF circuits?)
Ken
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