the de-oxit is good for jacks and switches too, but don't get the "smart nozzle" they leak and break real easy, get the old school spray tube type>
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Damn it to be, if I don't have a love hate relationship with CAIG Products!
So many of these electronic fix it in a can wonder sprays are too overly high priced! It's just crazy what type of profits these folks must be taking in for their snake oil recipes!
De-Ox-It products must be one of the highest price of them all! I don't know what they formulate that stuff from? Gold? Platinum? Moondust? Who knows for sure? It doesn't say on the the material data safety sheets either!
The sad fact is that their products do work fairly well. Especially the F100 fader cleaner/lubricant.
I am also one of those that doesn't get paid enough per unit to tear into a machine and remove the pots and faders to disassemble and perform micro surgery on the actual component. Often the pots are in locations that are even hard enough to access and in most instances requires shooting a big bursts of aerosol stream into whatever possible opening within the body of the potentiometer just to get some solution up and inside and working where it needs to go!!
So I often spray a lot of stuff up into chassis. This gets very wasteful and used to really piss me off when more of the product was leaking out of the top of the can and dripping everywhere else except thru where the nozzle was pointed. Add insult to injury was that the many times I wrote to CAIG about the crappy nozzle delivery system, the constant and defensive denial of it being a problem. Acting as if I was trying to cheat or acquire free products or something. Sheesh! I never once suggested reimbursement, I just simply wished for them to acknowledge and do something about the problem ! They still deny the problem but they have also brought back the regular old spray straw type tip and distribute both types.
My other gripe is that the propellant often expires before a greater amount of the liquid snake oil had been dispensed.
I have been mostly trying to avoid CAIG products asy own personal protest. Yet I do in fact keep a couple of cans of the F100 as well as a small jar of the F100 silicon type fader grease . I also have a large dispenser of the red D100 in the squeeze type brass tipped applicator.
I am using these less and I am trying to use more generic sources such as distilled water and various other polar and non polar solvents like Anhydrous IPA , Acetone, Mineral Spirits and various concoctions blended together. I use highly filtered dry compressed air from a high pressurized air vessel (scba life support air tank -regulated down of course).
High grade mineral oil or liquid parrafin as it is called on the other side of the pond works as a anti corrosion protection and light lubrication. For heavier lubrication such as snap switches and pot shafts and sliders I use silicon divers grease. A small fractional part of acetone well diluted in IPA used in a spray bottle works well at cleaning and degreasing many components. Especially spraying out pots (keep acetone well diluted!) Also beware of extreme flamablility) Distilled water in sprayer works well too, follow up with compressed air and let dry overnight .
But yeah I am moving towards more affordable and available homebrewed "solutions" for cleaning vintage electronics on a mass scale, quickly and effectively.
Ask my wife about what happened to her dishwasher!?!?LoL!
