[sdiy] Cleaning Sliders

[Michael Schulze]

The *best* way is just to exercise them until they are clean and not apply
*any* coating.  The coating will just become gummed up with dust over time.

If that does not work try a contact cleaner that evaporates quickly, leaving
no residue.  Again - the contact was designed not to have anything in it.

If you cant get them to work after all that it's time to replace the part.

Also - never put anything on patch cords or in patch bays - I know the
Cramolin salesman will have me killed - but the same thing goes.  You can
even go to the ADC web site where they will tell you that the bay was
designed not to have anything applied.

Here's the scenario I have seen around here.

Patch bays start to make a little noise, as they will do.  Users don't
realize that all they need do is exercise the connection by twisting it a
few times, so some clown applies way too much cramolin.  This seems to work
for a while until the cramolin retains enough airborn crap to make the
connection intermittent again, so someone applies cramolin again and the
cycle repeats.  I've even seen TarnEx used by a guy who wanted the brass
patch cords to stay shiny.  What he did not realize is that he was replacing
one kind of oxidization with another.

Cramolin is a fine product - but not for faders and patchbays.  TarnEx is
just crap...

> From: Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
> Organization: The Sysabend Dump
> Reply-To: xyzzy at sysabend.org
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:57:31 -0700
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: [sdiy] Cleaning Sliders
> 
> Whats the recommended method for cleaning sliders?
> 
> I've always preferred the Coat Liberally with Gasoline and catch on Fire
> method then drill and install rotary pots, but thats not an option.
> 
> Whats the brand/type of lubricant people use on sliders after cleaning them
> carefully with some method?
> 
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