What Is DeoxIT and How Should You Use It? - Workbench Wednesdays
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- Deoxit is a unique electrical contact cleaning solution. Not only does it break up surface-level oxidation and flush it away, it also protects against future oxidation. There are many variations of the product and ways to apply it. This video explains what DeoxIT from CAIG Laboratories does, how to use it, and which version you should pick for different applications.
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#0:00 Welcome to Workbench Wednesdays
#1:24 What Is DeoxIT?
#2:14 Which DeoxIT Is Right for Me?
#5:11 How Do You Use DeoxIT?
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@ 4:05 When you get tired of the leaky, hard to control "Perfect Straw" cap on the D5 & D5 Fader pressurized cans, I have found you can remove it, and a lot of "Air Duster" nozzle caps will fit nicely, won't leak, and are very controllable for dispensing product instead of wasting it with the "perfect straw". I made a video to demonstrate the swap with caps from 2 brands of air duster cans.
I've used Caig's products since 1971. Back then, the DeOxit was called Cramolin and I loved it. I think the name change may have occurred at the time they had to reformulate it to remove the Freon TF. Still my go to cleaner.
Up here in Canada, the 5.0 OZ (142 g) can of Deoxit D5 has the thin red tube, not the big leaky version with the yellow tube, and it gives the option of LOW - MEDIUM - HIGH spray. Just recently I had to fix 22 Faders, that are 45 years old, in my Soundcraftsmen PE2217 Preamp - Equalizer. Some were intermittent, while others were completely open. As far as lubricating goes, these babies needed a major silicon lubrication, since some of them were almost impossible to move at all. So I first heavily blasted the Faders with Deoxit D5. That worked perfectly. Then I spent plenty of time lubricating each of them with a silicon lubricant. These faders are of a rare plastic kind that have the internal conductive surfaces on the sides rather than at the bottom. At least that made it so you can add plenty of lubrication without being worried about getting any lubricant on the conductive surfaces. Now they slide with almost no effort required at all.
FWIW, CAIG also has a silicone lubricant that contains deoxit. I didn't cover it in the video since I had zero experience with it. I think the idea is to provide a combined benefit of a good lubricant with the cleaning/protection properties of deoxit.
I bought a small 2 milliliter vial of DeoxIt at Microcenter to clean the USB connectors from my cell phone to my car's Android Auto module. Prior to using the DeoxIt, I thought I had a bad USB cable or connector in the dash, but the DeoxIt solved (or maybe dis-solved) the problem instantly. When the salesman at Microcenter suggested DeoxIt, I suspected it was snake oil, but the stuff really worked.
I used DeOxit F5 (for faders and potentiometers-contains grease) to release a cell phone battery from its glue/tape. It worked almost instantly, but the oily residue left a yellow border around the screen in places-not too bad, didn't ruin it. Apparently it entered the LCD screen at the edges. I have since bought some original DeOxit 5 and will use that next time. It should evaporate before migrating into the screen. The F5 fixed the the noisy pots and tuning dial on two of my radios and a landline telephone volume fader. Did it all without even taking off the knobs, because they wouldn't come off and I couldn't get the phone open. I love this stuff.
Good video. A friend of mine used to repair cb radios, old tv sets and old vcr players. I was surprised how many faults were caused by dirty contacts and video heads. Modern cars have so many sensors even them can be just dirty I have subscribed thank you i like when people go in depth with videos
Thanks so much for this explainer... the confusing naming has been so annoying, and after looking at a bunch of the options on a store shelf, I usually end up none the wiser.
Your video should be the standard, Thank You for your expertise.
Very interesting stuff, thanks for enlightening us.
Thank you for this! 👍
Great video. Very clear and informative. Thank you
JUST BASED ON THIS VIDEO ALONE I SUBBED, EXCELLENT CLEAR AND PRECISE INFORMATION.
GOOD JOB !
I did not know I needed this explanation until now.
thanks you for making this video.
I've got the 5.75 oz DN5 and can confirm that it creates less of a mess than the D5. I like it better.
Always wear eye protection when using the spray versions. This advice is from practical experience!
Great Stuff!!
I need to clean trs Jack's and when you said rotary potentiometer
I instantly thought about joysticks on my controllers
Which 2 blends do I need to buy for those 2 purposes
Love D5 but never quite understood what it was *meant* to do (it just worked really well for cleaning old electronics!) and what the rest of the range was for
You are absolutely right. Products like this should be named using a very simple and straightforward numbering like this:
DeoxIT 1, DeoxIT 2, DeoxIT 3 etc.
That way, the customer base would learn over time which number is used for which purpose. It would facilitate the information around each formula and the retention and understanding of the particulars of that number's purpose. In other words, everyone would know what each number does.
Hello , I have a trailer that was flooded and I want to clean the inverter . Any recommendation?
Thanks
Good Content ,Thanks I learned quite a bit as a child in the 1970s we had a Family member that was a Philco Television and Radio Repair man he did retire from Ford and we always had Philco Products in all of our homes because of his reccomendations and discounts i remember him giving my Dad a spray can of TV Tuner Cleaner and my Dad frequently spraying the TVs. in our homes. at the Channel Selector and Volume knobs but he always called it TV Tuner Cleaner not Deoxit ? is there a difference between those ? I myself. love Vintage Audio Equipment from the 1970s as in 1979. i bought my very first “Real” Stereo system that happened to be SAE Two seperate Amp and Matched Tuner plus Realistic Mach One Speakers at 17 years old i spent over $2,000.00. on thiat system which was more than my first two Cars and a lot of hard work. to accumulate
The "Channel Master" tuner cleaner I used in the 80's was greenish in color. It had mildly abrasive particles in it, and we always used to flush it with regular contact cleaner after use. Cool story about your SAE system. I currently have a SAE model 3022 I rebuilt about 4 years ago.
Now is this a great video? "I dont know" lol
Good video thx
Good stuff. Liquid of the gods
Great work! Subscribed.
Deoxit is fantastic, but its delivery method absolutely frustrates. That aerosol container with the hinged straw wastes so much product. I use a straw system by a company called
Aeroflex to deliver all aerosol products now and it's saved me money from product waste and more times than not, allows me to deliver precision shots of product in tight spaces that normally required me to remove PCB's.
Edit: The cartridge test results may indicate the deoxit treated area will oxidize slower than the IPA treated side.
Also, do not spray any cleaner or lubricant into fader aperatures directly! You will almost certainly flush out the lube, causing the fader action to freeze. Then you will have to tear down and apply new grease. A younger me made that mistake ONCE. 😂
I like DeoxIT, but I don't like the insane price
You can use ozone to rust/oxidize things more uniformly and it doesn't require heat.
Does it matter if you use deoxit or dn5 deoxit for games?
With my chemist's hat on I really want to know what makes up the secret sauce.
Oleic acid is the reducer in Deoxit.
There is likely a bit of mineral oil in the mix too.
What the heck, I literally opened up my browers, and went to youtube to look up a video that was pretty much this... what in the heck is going on?! Freaking psychics over at Google!
actually, F-series is also for regular pots, not just faders.
D-series is ok for wire-wound pots though.
CAIG's documentation and website says, in multiple places, that D5 is suitable for rotary pots and that F-Series is only meant for faders.
Additionally, person I spoke with is who first told me that. (He writes much of the documentation for DexoIT.)
@@bald_engineer I talked to a Caig rep and he told me to not use regular 5, but to use F5 on potentiometers. I did and it worked great. There are YT videos on this very topic.
Interesting.
What concentration % of IPA did you use to clean with when comparing against the DeoxIT?
Never heard of the brand, or it's parent company either, so a bit of a gain in regards to effective marketing for your sponsor.
The fact that you mentioned "plastics that are 30-Years or older" suggests that it may react with some additives that used to be used in plastics production and that no longer are, OR, that it may just be making some plastics ever so slightly brittle and that it is more noticeable on plastics that have already naturally become brittle over time due to age and exposure to natural light, etc...
I have my concerns around the fumes that it may give off, AND, If in the long run it has any effects on the environment or recycling process when it eventually comes to the day where my old electronics will have no choice but to be recycled due to being worn out.
I do not want to be buying products that contribute to the damage and pollution of our existing but fragile environmental ecosystems.
The same environmental ecosystems that industrial chemicals so often seem to affect for decades down the road with full knowledge of such being available at the time of original sale but simply ignored or even maliciously hidden in the pursuit of profits.
99%
I recently took in a gameboy advance sp cartridge for some maintenance at a local retro game shop and they tried everything to get it running and they showed me that there was corrosion on some of the soldering points on one of the chips they recommended I used deoxit d5 to dissolve the corrosion would it be safe to use I’m just afraid of damaging the pcb and other components
Sorry, but I cannot understand what you are asking. Can you add punctuation to your post?
@@bald_engineerOh forgive me. I forgot this was my entrance essay to Yale.
I still treasure my Cramolin red & blue. Deoxit does sound more professional...
Someone alert Adrian Black
Gold oxy, lol
Q: Are corporate executives really so greedy that they will let a known nozzle complaint go years without investing in a fix?
A: Silly rabbit, only a poor person would even ask that question.
And iḿ just sitting here with my random contact cleaner wondering why it doesnt work every time as It should.. turns out I had no idea there were different kinds.
Well, I just used DeoxITLiquid, squeeze tube 100% solution on a pot volume control on my radio, and now the volume is always high. I can't turn it down even a little!