Re: [IRCA] remote controller question
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Re: [IRCA] remote controller question



> As RCs get old and overused, they tend to require more and more effort for
> some of the buttons to engage.
> 
> My question:  can I safely use a spray electric contact cleaner (such as
> nexxtech's TUNER CONTROL, purchased at whatever Radio Shack is now called)
> on the remore controller?

No. no. no. No.
 
> (Two of my DX quality radios have RCs, though happily neither of these are
> yet at this stage . . . )

Contact cleaner is a really bad idea -
I find that my mother-in-laws remotes get gummed
up with something I call "primordial ooze" -- do not
know how it gets there.

I kid you not: Soap and water on the contact pad (made of rubber generally)
and a wipe of the contacts with some soft tissue and soapy water.

Contact cleaner will totally foul these kinds of remotes if not destroy them.

--
Colin Newell - Editor - coffeecrew.com | coffee.bc.ca | DXer.ca
Web-Design / E-Commerce / Writing
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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