"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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Conductive glues are rare animals for this reason.

I ran the abut in this problem a few years ago. Previously, disassembly
and cleanout with detergent water worked to perk up a balking RC. But a few
years later, that did not solve all dropouts. I took to scrubbing the little
rubber conducting boots with lacquer thinner, but that still did not solve
eve half the dropouts.

My last resort was to add an aluminum foil bits the size of the
footprint to each contact. That perked up about half the dropouts, still not
good enough for serious cassette and DVD watching where the program content
was recorded off of standard broadcast with its weighty commercial content.

As a "last" resort (there is really always "just-one-more" to be found),
I went to mother Radio Shack and bought a universal control. It included my
VCR and TV codes, so now I'm back to 95% RC functioning (nothing's perfect).

Ange