What’s your favorite cleaning method for connections

Johnny all the more reason not to use lithium based lubricants because with lack of use, it tends to lose its moisture content and cake up.    Depending on the table, lubing your bearings should be easy, once a year is fine…some do it more and others never do it.    

The Keve grease seems to be the hot ticket for the plastic transport. Thanks tiffer! I’ll take look at lubing the turntable bearings. Shouldn’t be too hard. Have a music hall MMF7.3 that’s a few years old now so it’s probably time. Agreed on the lithium grease. I’ve Sean it happen on older bike thumb shifters. The pawls won’t engage.

Happich simichrome polish to quickly remove any dirt/oxidation from the connection, then acetone to remove any film left behind from the simichrome. Finally, apply whatever contact treatment you prefer.  Lately, I've been using Deoxit shield contact Protector in its pure form, from a 1.6mL bottle with an applicator brush. Tiny bottle seems to last a long time.

Pretty elaborate process! How about a spritz of CRC? I just got a bottle of that deoxit with the applicator brush and a mixed bag of cleaning swabs. I like the precision of application and the ability to clean the positive pin insert points on the rca jacks. I believe the Deoxit has some kind of rubricant in it because it seams to be slightly viscous. Haven’t read the bottle that closely yet. Need a magnifier for that but it seams to work well. That old bottle of Audioquest cleaner that I have doesn’t seam to be available anymore. I’m wondering if they discontinued it because it acts like Tarn -x. It literally dissolves heavy oxidation on contact. Probably taking metal with it.

Everything gets a quarter turn to the right whenever I remember to do it.  Maybe 2-3 times a year.