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Re: how do you clean your old vintage tube pins?

stay away from Deoxit, there is increasing evidence that this stuff will leave a hard varnish as it ages, and that the varnish can only be removed by hard physical sanding, it is especially bad for tube pins as the pins will get hot to a degree due to the tubes getting hot, and that accelerates the conversion of the oleic acid, which is the compound of Deoxit, to a varnish hard coating. Do a search here and learn about it, I like the lemon juice suggesion...


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  • Re: how do you clean your old vintage tube pins? - gkargreen 13:54:27 02/24/07 (0)


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