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mcp6453 wrote:
Is this technique a good one?
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-...es-in-minutes/
I have a lot of old male XLR connectors with dirty pins that I'd like to clean.
The vinegar and salt trick works well, BUT you have to make sure you get
all of the vinegar and salt off completely or it will cause worse corrosion
in the long run. I wouldn't do it on XLR connectors or anything else with
a lot of fiddly bits.
Good XLR connectors, though, will be silver plated and the black stuff is
conductive and shouldn't be a problem. If it is, a squirt of Deoxit (which
is a much more mild acid) and a q-tip will clean it up. If you are really
worried about it, you could use Tarn-X which aqueous and a little more acid,
and will deal with really crusty stuff.
The cheap asian ones may not be silver plated, though, and mostly should just
be discarded.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."