How to clean a tuner (analog)

[LBPete]

CorrosionX is not a cleaner. It's a lubricant that has anti corrosion properties and enhances conductivity. It's certified safe for electronics so you can use it in modern potentiometers. I've been using the "regular" version. I first found it a local boating store in a spray can but have since bought it on line in pump spray bottle. I transfer it from there into a needle bottle applicator. That allows you to dole it out one drop at a time.

You need multiple DeOxit products to do what CorrosionX does. D5 is a cleaner/conductivity enhancer but it doesn't lubricate. Faderlube (or whatever the hell they call it now) is a lubricant that neither cleans or enhances conductivity. D100 is just a conductivity enhancer.

I have not been doing much bench work over the past couple of years so I really don't have that much experience with it but it worked like a champ on this tuner.

- Pete

 

[Wolfdaddy]

CorrosionX is not a cleaner. It's a lubricant that has anti corrosion properties and enhances conductivity. It's certified safe for electronics so you can use it in modern potentiometers. I've been using the "regular" version. I first found it a local boating store in a spray can but have since bought it on line in pump spray bottle. I transfer it from there into a needle bottle applicator. That allows you to dole it out one drop at a time.

You need multiple DeOxit products to do what CorrosionX does. D5 is a cleaner/conductivity enhancer but it doesn't lubricate. Faderlube (or whatever the hell they call it now) is a lubricant that neither cleans or enhances conductivity. D100 is just a conductivity enhancer.

I have not been doing much bench work over the past couple of years so I really don't have that much experience with it but it worked like a champ on this tuner.

- Pete

@LBPete thanks for the comments. I did realize it is a lube, not a cleaner. I'm glad you mentioned getting it at a boating store. My son and I use products and tools from one hobby in others. We have some boating projects planned for next Spring. I'm thinking of trying the HD or XD on that stuff.

 

[Rauul]

Does Deoxit D-5 qualify as a non-residual cleaner?

No absolutely NOT! What I use is a zero residue product made by MG Chemicals called Electrosolve. Works great.

 

[Barncats]

Please forgive the redundant question, but I've now read through this entire thread from 2008 to present, and I'm still unsure about what to buy to do this work.

I have a Sansui TU-217 and a Tivoli table radio that I'd like to clean. I'm tentatively thinking of getting one of the following for cleaning : (1) MaxPro Contact Cleaner, (2) WD-40 Specialist Contact Cleaner, or (3) CRC 05103 QD Electronic Cleaner, all of which are non-residue. And a tube of liquid DeOxit FaderLube to apply afterward. Are these all okay? I have some DeOxit D5 but that is NOT okay as it is not non-residual, correct? Many thanks for clarifications.

 

[dr*audio]

Please forgive the redundant question, but I've now read through this entire thread from 2008 to present, and I'm still unsure about what to buy to do this work.

I have a Sansui TU-217 and a Tivoli table radio that I'd like to clean. I'm tentatively thinking of getting one of the following for cleaning : (1) MaxPro Contact Cleaner, (2) WD-40 Specialist Contact Cleaner, or (3) CRC 05103 QD Electronic Cleaner, all of which are non-residue. And a tube of liquid DeOxit FaderLube to apply afterward. Are these all okay? I have some DeOxit D5 but that is NOT okay as it is not non-residual, correct? Many thanks for clarifications.

Don't use MaxPro Contact Cleaner, it has lemon flavor extract in it. WD-40 Specialist Contact Cleaner should be fine, followed by the Fader Lube.

 

[tarior]

I use CRC QD Electronics Cleaner on tuning capacitors, and lube with a tiny bit of Caig L260NP. Faderlube or any gun/sewing machine oil is probably also perfectly fine.

 

[Barncats]

Don't use MaxPro Contact Cleaner, it has lemon flavor extract in it. WD-40 Specialist Contact Cleaner should be fine, followed by the Fader Lube.

Thank you, and much appreciation for your maintaining this thread for what's now almost twenty years!