Cleaning those rubber thingies

[Johan Gustavsson]

> Your problem may not be that the contacts keep getting dirty as much as the
> conductive layer on the rubber is gradually deteriorating. I find that
> cleaning only really works the first couple of times.

Yep...I've found a somewhat cheaper way to go than that two-component
thingy, though. Electrolube silver conductive paint, for repairing
PCBs. I've sucessfully fixed a HR-16 with it, using only a small part
of the 3 gram contents, and it is still liquid some months
later. Don't know if it is as tough, though. It isn't cheap, either,
but you don't have to throw away what you don't use.
/Moxie (Quick commenting)