Switch on old stereo receiver

White lithium grease is probably fine.

Dave

Hi, Lubriplate grease or spray(if it does not attack plastic housing) from electronics parts store like old radio shack(it's called Sosurce now up here in Canada). Think that push button toggle switch spring inside is getting old.

Perhaps, depending on what else if anything is in it...one of the specific-purposes dielectric greases would be more certain unless it mentions being a dielectric...

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There's more than one?

What I got is an ancient can of brown all-purpose grease and an aerosol can of all-purpose white (no mention of dielectric properties).

Suppose I need an all-purpose dielectric grease for everything from spark plugs to stereo switches, etc. Price/availability?

Thx, P

"Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens!" -Friedrich Schiller

There are a veritable plethora, but I was meaning in the sense of being specifically electrical-purpose dielectric just to be sure it didn't have an undesirable additive.

The bulk greases are readily available in small tubes quite inexpensively from any automotive supply. For your switch, you probably need aerosol and the contact types are available at Radio Shack or most any quality electronics supply -- the regular electrical supply places, probably, but sure to be at the electronics guys...

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Very versatile advice.

I knew an old TV repairman who swore by WD-40 for cleaning tuners, and volume controls. Wonder if he's still alive?

Lubriplate is widely available and not expensive at all.

One doesn't want to lubricate surfaces that transfer voltages, audio signals etc... Lubriplate is decent but not where contacts, wipers etc.. touch each other. I use White Lithium in an aerosol can with a tube applicator. It's been used for many years by the manufacturers.