[TenTec] Cleaning Switches (my very last post on this)

[Mike Hyder -N4NT-]

And even further...
The first link below didn't work.  Go here:
http://store.caig.com/s.nl?sc=2&category=188&search=cramolin
then select Reference OLD to NEW Products.

And another last thought.  On the bandswitch wafers of the Ten-Tec rigs 
I've owned, there is a clear disc on each side of the contacts.  Each 
disc has two holes.  But the discs are flexible so one could pry an edge 
slightly out and spray the DeoxIT in.

73, Mike N4NT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Hyder -N4NT-" <Mike_N4NT at charter.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Cleaning Switches


| Further to my reply to Ed, here is what Ten-Tec has recommended in the
| past:
| For initial contact cleaning, both for switches and potentiometers, 
use
| Cramolin R-5.  For lubrication of the contacts thereafter, use 
Cramolin
| B-5.  The R-5 came in a red can and the B-5, a blue one.  Both these
| Cramolins were made by Caig Laboratories.
|
| The following information comes from the Caig Reference OLD to NEW
| Products:
| http://store.caig.com/app/site/media/sitemedia.nl/id.837/.f
|
| When I spoke with Garland Jenkins about which substitute to use, he
| recommended the DN5.  He was VERY SPECIFIC about using DN5 and not D5.
| The sprays designated N are marked "Safe for use on plastics," so be
| very sure to get the N versions of both ! !
|
| The R-5 cleaner was replaced with Caig DeoxIT  DN5S-6N  5% Spray.
| http://store.caig.com/s.nl/it.A/id.1982/.f?sc=2&category=188
|
| The B-5 lubricant was replaced with Caig DeoxIT  SHIELD SN5S-6N  5%
| Spray.
| http://store.caig.com/s.nl/it.A/id.2173/.f?sc=2&category=192
|
| When I ordered from Caig, it seemed to me the shipping cost was about 
as
| much as one can of spray.  Getting both at one time would make sense. 
A
| can of either of these, properly used, should last a young teenaged
| technician a lifetime.
|
| 73, Mike N4NT
|
| ----- Original Message ----- 
| From: <OTAKEBI at aol.com>
| To: <tentec at contesting.com>
| Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 8:50 PM
| Subject: Re: [TenTec] Cleaning Switches
|
|
|| Ed, I have a Corsair II that has the same type of switch.
|| I have never been able to figure out how to do this and would be
| interested
|| in any off list replies to you.
|| I will keep my eyes open for any on list replies.
|| I do know that TT has a special lube that they use.
|| DeoxIT by Caig has been said to be what TT uses but I am not sure if
| it is.
|| Let me know what you find out.
|| Dan/N4VET
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