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Pro tip: using a wooden coffee stirrer to clean edge connectors
Was fighting a stubborn intermittent on a Honeywell HSI-100 heading indicator in a Cessna 172. Tried DeoxIT and contact cleaner but the issue kept coming back. Grabbed a wooden coffee stirrer from the break room, soaked it in isopropyl, and ran it along the gold fingers on the connector. Got a ton of grime off that I couldn't see before. Anyone else got a weird nonstandard trick that actually works?
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the_faith9d ago
That is just proof that common stuff often works BETTER than the fancy products people buy.
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the_linda9d ago
Blow my mind with how the marketing teams for the expensive stuff are probably screaming right now. @the_faith you hit on something I feel like nobody talks about - the fancy stuff often relies on you not knowing what's actually in the common stuff. My aunt's been using the same drugstore face cream for 20 years and her skin looks better than my cousin who drops $200 a month on some lab made goo. Most of the time the cheap stuff has the same active ingredients anyway, just without the pretty packaging and fake promises. Makes you wonder how many people are just paying for the habit of feeling fancy instead of results.
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