Water is not a good conductor of electricity. Stabilant 22 on the other hand is. That’s why Deoxit for example is safe to use on tube pins. That’s also why commercial aircraft use it on communications electronics. One must obviously ensure not to allow Stabilant 22 to get onto the surface of the tube sockets where it could migrate to another pin. Wipe off any excess before inserting treated tube.
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How much heat are you talking about? What's the voltage? Here is the typical statement found in an ARC owners manual for tube audio equipment. // Quote: "3. Note: In general, contact enhancers are not
recommend for use on vacuum tube contact
pins. With continual exposure to heat and air,
many of these substances can form gummy, dustcollecting
residues which actually reduce
contact and degrade sonic performance. Proper
external use of these preparations – on
interconnect plugs, speaker connections, etc.– is
subject to the discretion of the owner. Contact
Audio Research for specific recommendations." End of quote. // I bet other tube equipment manufactures have the same statement in their manuals. You can clean contact enhancers off of tube pins fairly easily. Not so easy out of the female contacts of tube sockets. I'll just stick with using Isopropyl alcohol for cleaning tube pins and tube sockets. |
Tom wrote, "30 years ago this same product then known as Tweek was used and sold in a store I ran. Great stuff for sure . Went away and came back in the same form. Glad it did." i remember Tweek very well. That's the stuff that gave contact enhancers a bad name, namely by turning a greenish black over time. cheers |
right from the mouth of the goat mouth..look on their site..geoff http://www.stabilant.com/Company.html D. W. Electrochemicals Ltd.D.W.E. was established in 1986. Our product originated in 1976, from Wright Electroacoustics, where it was based on the R&D work of Wm. M. D. Wright. After several years of field trials, the final product, Stabilant 22™ was introduced by Sumiko Audio, under the trade name TWEEK©. Tom |
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