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Freebird
Intermediate Member
Username: Freebird
Post Number: 400
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 11:26 pm: | 
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People i talk to on the radio tell me it sounds like the contacts need to be cleaned on my d 104.But I don't know what the contacts are or how to clean them.does anyone know? |
Viking
Intermediate Member
Username: Viking
Post Number: 244
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 10:33 am: |
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Base mic: take off the bottom cover. Use a real fine sandpaper (or some say even just plain paper) and slide back and forth across the contacts.
Hand held mic: contact cleaner on/in the slider mechanism is ideal. WD40 works too. |
Kid_vicious
Senior Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 1355
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 10:10 pm: |
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what exactly is the complaint that you are getting?
are they noticing a "pop" when you key or unkey?
or is it about the audio quality/level?
if its a pop they are hearing, the contacts are not fully disconnected from the receive side when they make contact with the transmit side.
if thats the case, the contacts just need to be bent a bit so that they are fully disconnected from one side before making contact with the other.
a "break before make" connection.
hope this helps,
matt |
Freebird
Intermediate Member
Username: Freebird
Post Number: 413
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 3:19 am: |
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Its a base d 104 with the lazy key.when I take the cover off where do I find the contacts I dont know what they look like.anyone? |
Kid_vicious
Senior Member
Username: Kid_vicious
Post Number: 1635
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 5:33 pm: |
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take off the bottom cover, remove the screws from the PC board, and VERY carefully move it out of the way, you should see a bunch of metal tabs all sandwiched together with plastic in between them.
the ends will have a little bump on them, and that is the part that makes contact and can get oxidized or corroded.
use ONLY contact cleaner, or may be rubbing alcohol on some fine sandpaper, and drag it through the contacts, being careful not to bend anything.
its a slow and tedious job, so be patient,
good luck,
matt |
Doublenickle
New member
Username: Doublenickle
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 9:39 am: |
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What if you have OLD D 104's, with the contacts up in the neck,NOT in the base ? |
Yankee
Senior Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 1429
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 9:30 am: |
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On the older G and TUG D104 stands, one way to clean the contacts is to remove the two screws and remove the keying bar and using a good electronics parts spray cleaner, spray down into the hole that the keying bar fits into, next put the bar back on and work the bar a few times to clean the contacts.
 Personally I take the microphone stand apart and remove the contacts and this serves as a much better way to clean the contacts, it's a slow job taking the stand apart and putting it back together, but the end results are rewarding.
Carl CEF-357
CVC-9 HAM-28
Flatlands of Oklahoma
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Chad
Senior Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 1281
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, February 15, 2007 - 9:39 am: |
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Yes coarse sandpaper will, but VERY fine grit paper intended for wet-sanding should be ok. afterwards you will need to reprotect the contacts with Caig Preserv-It or similar.
Chad
CEF 433
HAM 212
not an ego thing, just keepin' the mods happy 
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Unit199
Intermediate Member
Username: Unit199
Post Number: 432
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 9:36 am: |
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I use a good old USA paper bill of unknown denomination or cheap white note paper and contact cleaner. Works great and does not wear away contacts and no grit from sandpaper gets left in microphone.
HARVE
UNIT199
CEF210
CVC18
KB0YVK
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Moderator1516
Moderator
Username: Moderator1516
Post Number: 418
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007 - 9:54 am: |
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i use a dollar bill or what ever i have in my wallet
it works real well
recently i had trouble with my turner plus 3 not keying up right so i took the bottom cover off and used a dollar bill on the contaacts and now it does okay
moderator1516
cef 139
cvc 12
ham 147-ki4kxl
aka:skilletlicker
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D1g1man
Junior Member
Username: D1g1man
Post Number: 11
Registered: 3-2008
| | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2009 - 10:54 am: |
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NO SANDPAPER! you do not want to remove material on the contacts, just polish them!
Radio Shack sells a product called "DeoxIT™/ProGold™ Twin Pack"
Catalog #: 64-4338
Wet a Q-tip and soak the contact points for 24 hours, then clean with brake cleaner spray from an auto supply house.
Use a new, crisp dollar bill and pass through the contacts about 10 times on each one to polish.
Clean again with brake cleaner.
Apply a small amount of the De-Oxit GOLD on the points and your contacts will be like new, and stay that way! |
