Kerosine based lamp-oil is one of the best for me!
(take care not to use the stuff with colors and
nice flagrances!)
Not too fat but enough to make it work and
not much of a risk regarding solving
plastics and other fragile stuff.
There is also tuner-contact-spray in case
you have to work very delicate plastic pots
This stuff is less aggressive than your run
of the mill contact-spray.
Sipke de Wal
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----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: OT: cleaning pots on my vintage audio amp
> > Some folk on the list from other parts of the world, such as Tony, have
> > not seen it by that name, and would prefer to use the actual correct
>
> FWIW, the first time I saw the term 'Rubbing alcohol' was in an Apple ][
> manual (to clean the edge connector fingers on a plug-in card). I was
> `working' at a research chemical lab at the time, and the chemical stores
> had no idea what 'rubbing alcohol' was (they had dozens of alcohols
> available, of course). It took me quite some time to find out what was
> actually needed.
>
>
> > chemical designations. But then again, they call their drugstores
> > "chemist"s :-)
> >
> > You want the ~90% stuff, not the ~70%.
>
> I'll stick to the 99.7% stuff that comes in spray cans and is sold for
> electronic/mechanical cleaning :-)
>
> -tony
Received on Thu Feb 21 2002 - 12:59:00 GMT