How do you clean tube pins?

Voodoo, meaning $150 for a tinny bottle of miracle product that some make money of poor naive souls. No names need to be mentioned. When I said "Steelwood" I was refering to my genius friend who used it and shorted his preamp. Very fine particulars find its way into the tube sucket and it was 4th of July. As to gold plated pins, I believe the whole idea behind it was to.......yes, preserve the perfect connection and prevent the oxidation..........I could be wrong though.

How many times one needs to clean the pins.....come on, give me a break.

Gold pins do not need any treatment. It is not required or recommanded. That is the reasone for gold plated pins.
Whatever u use on standard pins make sure you remove ALL of the solution. Do not use steelwool or voodoo crap. Plain metal polish is fine.......no need to go crazy over this issue.
Cleen the sackets with compresed air and contact cleaner from Radio Shack and a tooth pick.
Be careful.

Well, use voodoo as well as magic clocks and report back to let us all know how great it sounds. :)

Cheers

Mariusz

Abe, too bad you did not like the story.
However that is what happend to one guy who was going nuts about cleaning pins and suckets......and thought he knew everything. Since that day , he did not touched pins or suckets yet.
If you feel it should NOT be posted in this thread.......
piece of advice:
get in touch with the moderator or become one, it is that easy.
I am still useing brass polishing cream that costs close to nothing as well as regular contact cleaner from RS and comp.air. You experiences might be different........I am just shareing mine. However IMO, you are over-analizing the importance and benefits of the simple thing as tube pins.
So polish all you want and feel good about your pins. :)

Mariusz