De-oxit..Caig

[Motor Sport Visions Photography]

In a message dated 1/24/2001 Huw Powell <audi at mediaone.net> writes:

<< or...

get a can of spray contact cleaner, $3-4 at FLAPS or hardware store and
a 8 oz or so tube of dielectric grease ("ignition sealer", etc.), have
enough to do every connection on your car (highly recommended!) and some
left over for your friends to use up. >>

While I will always defer to your wisdom in the world of speakers and
many things electronic, you really should try Caig's products such as
Deoxit if you never have. It is soooooo much better than *any* other
contact cleaner (except perhaps the insanely over-priced Stabilant that
I seriously doubt is any better) I could find over my 20 or so years as
a consumer electronic repair tech that it would be like comparing a S4
to a Yugo. I mean it really is that much better than the typical spray
contact cleaners. When I first started using Caig's "Cramolin" (as it
was called at the time) in the mid-80s my recall rate for switch/control
cleaning related repairs went to nill. I have brought back noisy
potentiometers to silent reliable operation many times where other
contact cleaners have failed. Ultra sensative video head switching
relays in VCRs...the ones that caused rainbow in old 4 head VCRs which
would even be bad as new spare parts--one drop of Cramolin and the
micro-burnishing tool and they *never* came back.

For a locally available alternative, if the formula is the same which it
may well not be, LPS brand electronic contact cleaner was the next best
thing that I would get from a hardware store when Cramolin wasn't
re-stocked in time...but it paled in comparison.

Audi type$$ window switches? Never had to take one apart yet. A little
squirt of R5, some excercise of the switch, and back to life it is. All
the window switches in my type$$ always work...in a marine climate,
thanks to Caig's stuff. It is that good and not all that expensive. No
affiliation, just a very long time satisfied customer/professional user
of their products.

Mike Veglia
Motor Sport Visions Photography
http://www.motorsportvisions.com