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    Doing It Yourself (repair and maint)

    So I asked a member here if he knew of any alignment videos already posted on the web and I went and looked on YouTube first.
    [youtube:3kb9si76]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IaUEhz17o[/youtube:3kb9si76]
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IaUEhz17o

    Pretty old school, pretty simple.

    I'd like to start a place here where we can share regular maint advice and anyone can add anything they have run into or just feel would be helpful. Video of the procedure is a plus.

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    Re: Doing It Yourself (repair and maint)

    This stuff is Your Friend:



    A large number of "intermittent" problems (especially with older sets) can be traced to dirty potentiometers, switches and contacts.

    As with Brylcream, "...a little dab'll do ya".
    "Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."

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    Re: Doing It Yourself (repair and maint)

    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX
    This stuff is Your Friend:



    A large number of "intermittent" problems (especially with older sets) can be traced to dirty potentiometers, switches and contacts.

    As with Brylcream, "...a little dab'll do ya".
    More like a tiny dab. A guy at the Dalton,GA 'fest was telling me about his Drake R-4C problems and what he'd already done to "restore" it.

    So I ask him how red his 'glass wafer switch sections had turned after he "sprayed" them with Deoxit, he said pretty red. :roll:

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    Re: Doing It Yourself (repair and maint)

    I was always told to use a swab and stay away from the sprays.



    Tiny 7.4ml bottle - $17.95.

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    Re: Doing It Yourself (repair and maint)

    The spray is for flushing potentiometers and the needle-based applicator is for switch contacts, edge connectors and the like.

    That stuff has bailed me out of a LOT of problems.
    "Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."

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    Re: Doing It Yourself (repair and maint)

    DeoxIT is good stuff, if used properly.

    Never let the stuff touch a 'glass switch wafer section at all, especially on the edges where the 'glass fibers will soak it in like a sponge. It will clean off a ceramic switch section with little problem.

    Newbs generally cause themselves as many problems as they cure with DeoxIT.

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