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Safe anti-corrosion spray?


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Is there any product that I can spray on my electronic stuff

that will protect it from corrosion without harming anything?

 

I've used quality products such as Fluid Film & Boeshield on other things.

I'm in the sub-tropics and it is humid.

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Thank you. That looks like great stuff.


I got the Deoxit and Deoxit Shield 5oz.

Looks like good insurance.

I may put it on everything down here.


I owe you one Beetlejuice



Don't thank me, thank Skreddy. He's the one who turned me on to the stuff. :cool:

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I suspect that if I'm gonna spray it near tubes,
I should remove them first and be careful to keep it off the glass part?

I'd like to just put a fine mist over everything that's not wood or plastic.
The air can be brutal in the Keys. The only thing more corrosive, is the sun.

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It's an anti-oxidant, and contact cleaner. It's not intended to "spray on everything", but for cleaning scratchy pots and improving conductivity of contacts like jacks, switches and plugs. I do NOT recommend indescriminate "spray and pray".

 

I've never tried it on tube sockets, but it may work well for that... but if you do that, it's at your own risk. DEFINTELY turn the amp off and unplug it first though, and allow it to dry for an hour or so before powering anything up again.

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Something of interest I came across regarding the use of Deoxit and specifically which type to use for power tube pins ...

DeOxit turns into varnish at the temperatures seen on

power tube pins. The correct thing to use is Caig Labs

ProGold PxG formula, which is rated to 400 degrees C.

Lord Valve



http://groups.google.com/group/rec.audio.tubes/browse_thread/thread/ecb9778f41f99b4b/

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The ProGold is the one thing I didn't get.
I guess I'll grab one of the small sprays, for such areas.

I thought that the DeOxit is the cleaner, for areas already weathered
and the DeOxit Shield (which is just the old 'PreservIt' relabeled)
is for a protective coating?

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Something of interest I came across regarding the use of Deoxit and specifically which type to use for power tube pins ...




 

 

 

Update:

 

Caig just called me.

They are gonna send me the Deoxit Gold GXL (pricey)

http://store.caig.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.299/.f

 

The 'standard' Deoxit Gold is fine for everything but you want the GXL

for areas that get very hot.

 

He said to still use the Deoxit cleaner first, because things begin to oxidize immediately

and no manufacturers are yet applying this stuff on the assembly line.

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