Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of the forum. I have Caig Deoxit and I have been using that for years but I'm looking for a more professional cleaning process than just spraying on the Deoxit and wiping with a Q-tip or just letting it dry. My system gets a regular treatment yearly and the results are fine, I'm just wondering what other folks may do to achieve even greater results. I'd like to raise the bar to my cleaning ritual, hopefully some folks here can chime in on techniques or tools they use to achieve the best in cleaning and preserving these vital yet often overlooked parts.
Through a little bit of research, I have found a tool made by Signet that is a specifically designed RCA cleaning tool. It looks to be just a simple piece of plastic that may or may not work. There was one other tool I saw that looked like a mini pipe cleaner I have that also looks like it may or may not work. I'd like to know what tools you use, especially if you feel that you have used something better. Even if it is a home made tool.
One thing I will be ordering will be non shorting RCA caps for all of the unused RCA inputs and outputs throughout the rig. I truly have no idea whether these will work or not to lower the noise floor and if they do work for that, I will consider it an added bonus. I did see a video on the Cardas website that showed the results on an oscilloscope but I realize my listening room is quite different than the area surrounding that oscilloscope. My main reason for getting them is to help protect the unused inputs and outputs from oxidation and exposure to the indoor elements [however minimal].
I see that Cardas has solutions, Kontak has solutions, MAAS has an interesting product and the electrical field has a multitude of products that all claim to have one advantage or another over their competition. When cleaning these aforementioned contact points, what have you found to be the most effective product?
Last on the list is tools you use to clean the pins on the tubes. Currently I use mini pipe cleaners, Deoxit and I sometimes will break out the Dremel tool and a small buffing wheel to gently clean the pins. Has anybody else found something better to use?
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I will appreciate any and all comments to help better my cleaning tool arsenal, solutions or techniques to help achieve the best sound out of the gear sitting before me.
Through a little bit of research, I have found a tool made by Signet that is a specifically designed RCA cleaning tool. It looks to be just a simple piece of plastic that may or may not work. There was one other tool I saw that looked like a mini pipe cleaner I have that also looks like it may or may not work. I'd like to know what tools you use, especially if you feel that you have used something better. Even if it is a home made tool.
One thing I will be ordering will be non shorting RCA caps for all of the unused RCA inputs and outputs throughout the rig. I truly have no idea whether these will work or not to lower the noise floor and if they do work for that, I will consider it an added bonus. I did see a video on the Cardas website that showed the results on an oscilloscope but I realize my listening room is quite different than the area surrounding that oscilloscope. My main reason for getting them is to help protect the unused inputs and outputs from oxidation and exposure to the indoor elements [however minimal].
I see that Cardas has solutions, Kontak has solutions, MAAS has an interesting product and the electrical field has a multitude of products that all claim to have one advantage or another over their competition. When cleaning these aforementioned contact points, what have you found to be the most effective product?
Last on the list is tools you use to clean the pins on the tubes. Currently I use mini pipe cleaners, Deoxit and I sometimes will break out the Dremel tool and a small buffing wheel to gently clean the pins. Has anybody else found something better to use?
Thanks for taking the time to read this and I will appreciate any and all comments to help better my cleaning tool arsenal, solutions or techniques to help achieve the best sound out of the gear sitting before me.