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From: rcd@nbires.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
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Subject: Re: pot / contact cleaner lubricant
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 01:18:33 EDT
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> I have heard good things about a contact cleaner called
> cramalon (I really don't know about the spelling but it sounds that way).

Try Cramolin.  It works.  It's a two-part setup--two liquids.  The first
cleans; the second one works to prevent oxidation.  I don't know about
pots, but it's good for contacts.

I had been fighting with a Visual 100 terminal which has poorly designed
(or perhaps under-spec'ed or mismatched) connectors to the power supply--
it would go weird every couple of months, which weirdness was remedied by
cursing, disassembling, jazzing with connectors (contact cleaner and/or
plug/unplug several times), and reassembling.  I found the Cramolin stuff,
decided to get some just to try it, and treated the poor lame Vis 100
something over a year ago; no problems whatsoever since then.  (I don't
really know how long it's been, just long enough that it doesn't matter any
more.)

Don't know just why it works--haven't studied the literature much.  It
doesn't do anything obviously nasty or weird (like fizzing or smoking or
making things look very shiny).  But it seems to work.
-- 
Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
   ...Simpler is better.