Greetings..

I've had some experience with this very same thing with Sony's remote
controls with the black (underside) rubberized pad.

Symptom:
Harder and harder pushing of the various buttons to initialize the
function. It eventually became quite annoying.

Initial fix:
I cleaned the small little PCB in the remote which the rubberized pad
mates with during the button being pushed which improved the situation a
bit but NOT like it was when it was new.

Ultimate fix:
Called Sony parts and ordered a new rubberized pad for the remote (not a
cheap alternative). Again, carefully disassembled the remote and
installed the new rubber pad and re-assembled. The remote worked as new.

The solution these days though is to inquire about a remote from your
sets manufacture at locations like Circuit City, Best Buy or any
department style electronics store that carries the original
manufactures remote control. I've seen remotes, for example, with Sony,
RCA, Toshiba and others marked right on the package. They're
"generalized" remotes BUT marketed from the original manufacture. Mind
you, it won't match (verbatim) ALL your functions on your original
remote but most of the functions will be available on the remote.

Incidentally, this is also quite an aftermarket. Some of the more exotic
remotes now have an LCD touch screen and are fully programmable
function-wise. Obviously, the price reflects the sophistication that is
built into the remote.

Good luck..

Cheers,
G.



DoveDesign wrote:

What do you recommend to clean conductive rubber pads used in remote controls?
Also, the corresponding pc board contacts that are shorted by the conductive
pads to activate the remote functions.