Thread: Cost of Deoxit?
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Old 09-19-2005, 10:15 PM
bills bills is offline
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EchoWars
WD-40 dissolves the carbon tracks of many styles of potentiometers, rendering them useless, of course. Perhaps you've been lucky thus far, but a professional knows better and would never consider using the stuff for the aforementioned reason and many others that I see no point in covering.
so far i have not run into this problem
most of the stuff i work on is 50 or more years old maybe the newer stuff can't handle it.
i will keep this in mind when i work on new stuff.
thanks for all the input we can all learn something new.
bill


Last edited by bills; 09-19-2005 at 10:20 PM.
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