Puddin' Man wrote:
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:34:01 -0500, dpb wrote:

Dave Martindale wrote:
Pudding Dot Man At Gmail Dot Com writes:

DeoxIT might actually work to clean the mechanical parts, but that's not
what it's designed for (and it's pretty expensive). I'd clean the
mechanical parts with something like naphtha (lighter fluid), then
relubricate with grease after it had dried.
What kinda grease? Lithium grease (I got handy)?
White lithium grease is probably fine.
Perhaps, depending on what else if anything is in it...one of the
specific-purposes dielectric greases

There's more than one?

would be more certain unless it
mentions being a dielectric...

What I got is an ancient can of brown all-purpose grease
and an aerosol can of all-purpose white (no mention of
dielectric properties).

Suppose I need an all-purpose dielectric grease for everything
from spark plugs to stereo switches, etc. Price/availability?

There are a veritable plethora, but I was meaning in the sense of being
specifically electrical-purpose dielectric just to be sure it didn't
have an undesirable additive.

The bulk greases are readily available in small tubes quite
inexpensively from any automotive supply. For your switch, you probably
need aerosol and the contact types are available at Radio Shack or most
any quality electronics supply -- the regular electrical supply places,
probably, but sure to be at the electronics guys...

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