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Old 11-06-2007, 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by drh4683 View Post
I use a product by MG chemicals called "Contact cleaner with silicones". Cat # 404B-340g.
Lets not get off on a tangent about WD-40 as a contact cleaner. Its not advisable to use, especially as a tuner cleaner.
Just watch the silicone lubricants - most organic polymers aren't compatible with silicone - early plastics don't like silicone at all. Silicone will also destroy the butyl rubber elastic strip often used to keep ferrite tuning slugs snug in adjustable coils. As Andy mentioned, a good cleaning with Deoxit or denatured alcohol (in a pinch) to start, then sparingly apply tuner grease. (If you can still find it!) PTS made the best stuff, their green grease. Second choice would be General Cement's TunerLube - again, if you can find it.

My two cents, based on over 20 years experience:

NO: WD-40 (my reason: it attracts more dirt and dust), Tuner Cleaning Foam Inserts (they fall apart, thank God they are gone!), Blue Shower - remeber that stuff, anyone? I had a Magnavox tuner that was destroyed by that stuff.

MAYBE: Silicone (okay on Delrin and other modern polymers used in modern tuners)

YES: Deoxit (oleic acid based), some alcohols, Tuner Grease - a little goes a long way.

Anybody ever seen an MSDS for Tuner Grease, or GC's TunerLube?

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