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Review on CAIG LABORATORIES D100L 25C Contact Cleaner by Dwayne Shavers

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Decades of use of this material. Now a new application. joystick bearing!

I've been using this material for audio potentials and switches since the late 19th century. Audio engineers keep commenting on how this material lubricates and soothes the sonic pushers. My results have always been just as positive. I dripped on the pots on the flight simulator stick. They are typically 10k, 90 degree ROM layout potentiometers doing typical 5V work with an A/D converter. They are often miniature pots, smaller footprints, probably more susceptible to dirt/dust/bug droppings. As expected, a drop of red substance smoothed out the reaction very much. What had been a quarter to half volt surge with each movement of the pot became practically a zero surge. Smooth as the bottom of a baby pot. Smooth as any hall sensor curve. Here's a "new" application - I pressed the joystick's mechanical cams. This is usually a machined and/or chrome plated cam and bearing with or without a center detent. I don't want them to have oil or grease, they live in a desktop joystick or set of flight pedals, constantly on the ground, activated by the pilot's shoe soles. I simply removed the factory lithium/molybdenum/bear grease from the cams and dropped a drop of DeOx on the cam bearing surface. The bearer disappears with the help of magical elves, apparently leaving some of the End of Business product on a metal surface. Dust does not collect like grease does. The seemingly high price of a bottle is irrelevant. Cave engineers will most likely keep one of these bottles for more than 10 years. Chances are you'll change hobbies or die before you've used two bottles.

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