Wow, Martin, you have cool name. This Martin Philip responding!
I would be pretty judicious with that cleaner. It is not likely meant
to clean outside surfaces, and since it is a lubricant, will leave a
residue.
Also, you don't want the cleaner to get all over the circuit boards
and electronic components. You could create shorts and damage your
AN. You wouldn't want that, now!
Try to isolate the spray directly in or on switches, pots and/or
jacks. A light application is usually better that a heavy one. Just
repeat the light application if the first time around didn't clean the
connection.
Regards,
Martin Philip (aka martymart2)
--- In
AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Phillips" <babelcordoba@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello, I'm posting this question on this forum, rather than any of
the other synth lists I
> subscribe to, simply because it strikes me as the "nicest", most
helpful one of the lot.
>
> So apologies if this is of no interest to you, though I think that
as we are all gearheads your
> answers might be helpful to quite a few people.
>
> I just bought some contact cleaner, in a spray can ("Servisol Super
10 switch-cleaning
> lubricant"), because a lot of my gear has got dusty up in the attic,
particularly my mixing
> desk, one channel of which seems to have stopped working altogether.
I'm hoping I can get it
> working again by opening it up and giving it a good spray, but I've
never used this stuff
> before. My question is: is there anything in particular I should
look out for, or avoid, when
> spraying this stuff? Is it really safe just to blast away and try to
clear out any grime and dust?
>
> And, er, to try to make it a bit more on-topic, would the innards
(and, er, outards) of the
> AN1x benefit from this stuff at all? Or maybe just the connectors at
the back, i.e. the
> analogue bits?
>
> Can I be trigger-happy with my spray can?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>