Sometimes, we’ll get customer asking for contacts cleaner for their electronic products and electrical equipment. We’ll also get customers asking for ‘contact cleaner’, and there’s a bit of a conundrum between folks looking for “Contact Cleaner”, i.e. cleaner designed to clean via physical contact only without any abrasive, corrosive, or other chemical component to preserve delicate assemblies (sometimes known as “inert” cleaners), and folks looking for “Contacts cleaner” i.e. cleaner designed to clean and lubricate electrical contacts such as those on a potentiometer, relay, or other electromechanical device. How can you tell our system to give you the right kind of ‘Contact’?
A search for “contact cleaner” can get you in the right ballpark, but the best way to go about this search is to use the correct parametric filter in the Chemicals, Cleaners section of our website where these materials can be found. In this case, “Applications” is where you want to go, as shown.
This “Applications” filter lists the type of product or application a given cleaner is intended to clean. For electrical contacts like potentiometers, you’d select 'Contacts from this list.
Inert cleaners are unfortunately becoming much harder to find, with the main brand for them becoming obsolete in recent years. If you need a specialty cleaner that conforms to unusual requirements, please feel free to contact our Applications Engineering team for assistance.