albertporter
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| Cleaning and Maintenance of Connections..... Dill, Agreed, I use Flitz metal polish and also their lesser known product, Polier.I've polished out power cord prongs with Flitz and then cleaned with Caig. For unplated speaker posts such as Cardas manufacturers, there's a copper cleaning gel co... | |
| Cleaning and Maintenance of Connections..... Calgarian, Yes, Pro Gold is in spray can, I use it for speaker, XLR, and RCA. I even apply a bit on cartridge pins with a toothpick and wipe off excess with a Q Tip.I clean about once a year or anytime I'm working on the system, such as testing so... | |
| Cleaning and Maintenance of Connections..... Agree cleaning makes a big difference on RCA and speaker connectors and if you turn off the circuit breaker at the panel, you can spray Caig Pro Gold into your AC socket. You might wait five minutes before turning it back on or you can speed the p... | |
| What time do you wear? Tpreaves, That's lost on me, I don't understand. | |
| What time do you wear? You're right Syntax, I dropped my (then) Rolex President off at the factory in Switzerland when my wife and I were on vacation many years ago.Fortunately I registered it with US Customs because when it was returned there was no way to tell it from... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Listened again tonight with a fellow wanting to audition the Allnic, short session but the following got spun before shutting down.Massive Attack, "Heligoland"Eric Clapton, "Layla"Hampton Hawes, "Everybody Likes Hampton Hawes"The Dave Brubeck Quar... | |
| Hurricane Irene That makes sense, there would not be the issue of stale gasoline or Diesel. Natural gas would be great for generator, I've never seen gas shut off unless they were working on our hot water heater.I don't suppose it would be cheaper to generate you... | |
| Hurricane Irene Dan_ed, What is the source for power? Diesel?How do you keep fuel from going stale or is it natural gas powered? | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? My Tuesday night music meeting: Johnny Hartman, "The Voice That Is"Massive Attack, "Heligoland"Rickie Lee Jones, "Traffic From Paradise"Porcupine Tree, "Fear of A Blank Planet"Porcupine Tree, "Stupid Dreams"Ike Quebec, "Soul Samba"Beach House, "Te... | |
| Hurricane Irene Swamp,I had forgotten about that. Thanks for posting it again, we seem short on humor at Audiogon these days.There was a time when several of us had foolish posts like that, all going on at the same time. Teasing is good thing among friends and pe... | |
| What time do you wear? 08-29-11: AballMy Omega Seamaster quit working! I had to get it completely overhauled after only 2.5 years of light (but regular) use.My jeweler sent my Seamaster (Titanium and Rose Gold) back to Omega for clean and refinish. I received the estima... | |
| Hurricane Irene And the speedo was ready for its annual washing after the summer ;~) Now all is well, power back and the speedo dried off, so I am GOOD TO GO!There must be a web site where those words are cherished but I don't think Audiogon is it :^). | |
| Hurricane Irene A gallon or so of water in the basement last night but I found the problem & fixed it so we are all set here. Did you feel like a Swampwalker? | |
| Hurricane Irene Our country has been through a lot in the last few years, I kept hoping for a break, that Irene would blow out into the ocean and do no harm.I watched the news and weather a lot today. I can only say my heart is with the folks and property in harm... | |
| The Evolution of Modern Jazz World musicThis album is one of my favorites of the last few years. I've (literally) played it weekly. I have four of their albums on LP, some very hard to find now. The accompanying music video is stunning, at least to my senses as a photographer... |