SILCLEAR Silver Contact Enhancer

krellmk

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#1
Anyone hear of this this snake oil

https://shop.mapleshadestore.com/SILCLEAR-Silver-Contact-Enhancer_p_1177.html

Apply Silclear on any high-touted, gold-plated connector and you'll immediately get an improvement in picture and/or sound quality. We recommend applying the thinnest possible coating for best performance, which will last for lasts 10 to 20 unpluggings. Comes in a 7-gram jar with small applicator brush that may last a lifetime -- just don't loose the jar. 30-Day Money-Back
 

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As a component of grease, silver may not tarnish. This stuff may actually work and though I am sensitive to snake oil, it's the price that puts me off, even though it is reasonable, given the silver content. I'm really on the fence on this one.
 

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I have a can of Deoxit gold from the Clinton administration.. Not even half empty yet, and we used it all the time on amp refurbishments in the guiyar shop.

Does a great job cleaning up the nickel plated RCAs on the old receivers too.
 

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Used to use Deoxit Gold on IBM T30 laptop ram slots. Worked great, got it from Radio Shack. I keep a spray can of it, but don't have many real gold contacts or ram stick issues any more.
 

8991XJ

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This stuff does work according to a friend. But it is messy.

I'm a firm believer in renewing connections all connections about once a year...learned from that friend. Just breaking and remaking connections in the rig will give a new, clean connection not affected by the year or more of contamination that has started to degrade the previous connections. Whenever I bring this up there is a chorus of agreement from folks that do regularly clean connections and a few new converts.

Might get as much improvement from just cleaning all the connections as with using this silver stuff, though.
 
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