Q: (18407)
I own a company that services motorcycles, plus older BMW and Mercedes vehicles which have continuing problems in the fuse box connections to pin type fuses. Have used Stabilant 22 in the past with very marginal success, but it is hard to use and hard to find. Do you have any products to help?
Q: (18405)
I use your DeoxIT® D-Series and DeoxIT® Gold G-Series products on my audio/video and computer systems. I have a 12 years old car and this is the first time that I have to change battery. Since your products are so excellent in the audio field, I thought to clean the oxidized termination in the car with the red DeoxIT® D-Series, and then later put the DeoxIT® Gold on it. Do you recommend this?
So, can I use them on the new battery and the old termination? Do you recommend putting any grease between the termination wire and the new battery or the DeoxIT is enough?
Q: (18400)
Which product(s) do you recommend for maintaining clean contacts on pro camera bodies (D4s and D500) and pro lenses (300mm f4 and 500mm f4)? Would the DeoxIT® D-Series be sufficient or is the DeoxIT® Gold G-Series more adapted? Also, if I use the pen, is the spray redundant?
Q: (18398)
I just got a little bottle of DeoxIT® Gold. I understand it’s a good for connection between connectors e. RCA, XRL plugs. I am wondering whether it could be applied in AC power cord, say put on the AC wires direct. The reason why I asked, I saw some HiFi factory terminated cable with some liquid on the wires between connectors. Unsure, DeoxIT® Gold would be for this too.
Q: (18396)
Need direction on best products to purchase/use for Nikon cameras and audio equipment; internal cleaning (amps, integrated amps, circuit boards, connection points for all external cables, pots, switches, etc. Plus, a product that is plastic friendly.
Q: (18390)
I own vacuum tube home audio preamplifiers. The amplifier in particular runs pretty hot due to 8 KT120 power tubes, as do the smaller 12au7 signal tubes. The preamp gets warm with the 2 5ar4 rectifier tubes & 12au7 signal tubes. Total of 22 tubes combined. I purchased your vacuum tube survival kit (SK-GXMD).
I am wondering if the DeoxIT® Gold GXMD 100% solution that came with it can also be used on my male and female RCA connections on both my gear and interconnects, also my banana connectors on my speaker cables binding posts? I know the Gold GXMD is for higher temp applications, but will it work for my other connections? I think the VTSK is fantastic! If my contacts connections are clean, do I really need to use the DeoxIT D25L? I use it mainly on my tube pins, which is where most if not all the oxidization & crud occurs.
Q: (18389)
I’m planning to refurbish the contacts of my old car-HiFi system. Is it a good 3-day practice to use first the DeoxIT® D-Series for cleaning the contacts, then the DeoxIT® Gold G-Series for the golden contacts and at last to seal them with the DeoxIT® Shield S-Series? Or is it a disadvantage to mix up the products this way? The car is exposed to the mid-European weather the whole year, so moisture and fast temperature changes is a problem even inside of it.
Q: (18383)
Do you have a flexible extension tube that stays bent when you form it? The straight only straw sometimes has to be bent in such a way that it takes two hands to get it where it has to go and you can’t get to the spray button.
Q: (18320)
Hello Mark,
As we discussed, these connectors were manufactured by Hewlett Packard in the early 1970s for helping test a piece of modular test equipment (that is, the modular component would be removed from it’s parent device and attached via one of the two cables that involve these connectors.) I don’t know the nature of the gold finish on the pins, but I’d assume it was appropriate for military/industrial equipment of the era (not a thin plating.)
The connectors were left in a storage box essentially their entire life (and potentially in high temperature or high humidity environment), and in contact/proximity to some kind of flexible plastic foam that was intended to protect the connectors but eventually decomposed. Although I’ve encountered various types of decomposing foam before, I’ve not encountered deposits on gold contact pins (and as these cables/connectors are uncommon, I’m hoping I can restore them to serviceability.)
