Has anyone else been experiencing issues getting a good connection with the charger? I use my detector exclusively in a saltwater environment so I am very careful to clean it with fresh water after every use as well as a saltwater cleaning product called salt-away. However I have found the 4 connecting pads for the charger seem to get a layer of corrosion (can't see the corrosion just assume it's there) on them which I have been cleaning with a Q-tip soaked with alcohol. Lately the alcohol is not sufficient and had to use a tip of a Scotchbrite pad. Anyway I don't want to have to keep scrubbing these contacts as eventually they will wear. So was thinking of some kind of dielectric grease, anyone else have this issue?
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Charge pin connection corrosion and cleaning
- Thread starter Hotrod65
- Start date
Ytcoinshooter
Well-known member
Great post as this has been a concern, on my mind - but so far no problems. I use my 800 in all environments. I’ll follow this topic!
sniffitout
Member
I'm five hours from the beach & my machine will never see salt water . But anyhow , You could try a electrical contact cleaner called ...Deoxit. It's expensive , but the best.
Matt
Matt
Beware how you do it. Maybe ask ML ?
The wrong thing can wear off plating if it has it. If a solid alloy you add a chemical(s) , water, salts & electricity.
Its a chemistry set.
Example: Zenith remotes that used a "J" battery would grow a crystal on one terminal & the battery
would get replaced for no reason. Scratch off the crystal & the bat was good for years.
A plain pencil eraser ( NON abrasive) is probably safest.
Again going back to my TV days Zenith used gold plated tuner contacts, about 80. They told us the eraser
was safe to clean with & caused no damage.
HH
Tom
LFOD !
The wrong thing can wear off plating if it has it. If a solid alloy you add a chemical(s) , water, salts & electricity.
Its a chemistry set.
Example: Zenith remotes that used a "J" battery would grow a crystal on one terminal & the battery
would get replaced for no reason. Scratch off the crystal & the bat was good for years.
A plain pencil eraser ( NON abrasive) is probably safest.
Again going back to my TV days Zenith used gold plated tuner contacts, about 80. They told us the eraser
was safe to clean with & caused no damage.
HH
Tom
LFOD !