[RE-wrenches] Repairing malfunctioning Mate buttons

Nick Lucchese lucchesesolar at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 19:08:10 PDT 2024


Great, thanks everyone. I'll source some Deoxit and make it happen! Kind of
looking forward to taking one of these apart after pressing the buttons a
couple thousand times over the last 2 decades.

Nick

On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 6:46 PM Ray Walters via RE-wrenches <
re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> wrote:

> I second the Deoxit,  I've seen it work miracles on old electronics,
> potieometers, etc.  They make different formulas, more agressive
> cleaning, vs lubing vs protection.,
>
> On 9/18/2024 11:58 AM, Sam Haraldson via RE-wrenches wrote:
> > A step further beyond Todd's alcohol suggestion is trying to put some
> > Deoxit on the troublesome parts.
> >
> > - Sam
> >
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