Cleaning pins on UK mains plugs

How often do you unplug and plug back in? A hair dryer maybe but a HiFi or computer?

Anyway, what advantage is there at mains frequency to having Au plated plug pins, especially considering that inserting/removing a plug will remove any oxidation where the socket terminals contact?

Cheers,

Guy

I suspect that it is due to those with real problems not posting enough info for them to be helped. Personally, I have got fed up asking posters for the most basic info. If they don't supply it, or at least make a fair stab at it, I ignore them.

Cheers,

Guy

Asking such serious questions in a thread as silly as this? :-)

A Canadian nickel is attached to this message... spend it wisely :) :)

Seriously, however, if you should be right and the question was not a troll, then I, as one who contributed, apologize.

I enjoy nothing more than laughing along WITH someone, but not AT them. It isn't and never has been my intention to harm anyone else in any way.

Please, OP, accept my sincere apology.

Take care.

Ken

Even if the OP was a troll, much of the audiophile hoopla would suggest that its a legitimate question. People who deal with electronics and know the simple stuff like Ohm's Law can easily scoff at such but there's a whole megabuck audio-hokum industry out there advertising things that defy explanation or proof....or challenge. Not much different than the morning paper, heh? It never hurts to ask.

Hey, it would never HURT to clean up cruddy pins on a plug. I live by the sea and find a need to do so occasionally-not for sonic or PC performance benefits, though.

-Bill M

Isn't it time for someone to get extremely rude to someone else on this thread? PROBABLY USING CAPITALS. With or without asterisks, do you think? Kill-files are important here, too.

You're a ****-**** ****er who clearly can't be arsed to ... etc etc etc

There, that's better.

Dr Teeth wrote: | On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:51:54 +0000 (UTC), "Kevin Lawton" | wrote: | || The number of replies this thread has accumulated over the three || days os its existence is very surprising considering the limited || response some requests for help over a serious PC problem receive. | | I suspect that it is due to those with real problems not posting | enough info for them to be helped. Personally, I have got fed up | asking posters for the most basic info. If they don't supply it, or at | least make a fair stab at it, I ignore them.

Could it possibly be that someone who is stuck on a problem with their PC is not too sure what information is relevant to solving the problem ? To an expert it might seem very straightforward, but I guess that to a newbie it could be rather difficult to 'see the wood for the trees'. For example, if one was pretty new to PCs, then the fact that the machine has a habit of 'going wrong' after about half an hour of use might not so easily suggest to them a possible overheating problem as it would to someone more experienced. It's a two-way street. An OP might describe a problem in very general terms and then someone who is trying to help might ask a few questions. A few posts back-and-forth and a picture emerges which hopefully starts to explain what the problem might be. If the OP had known what to look at in the first place they would probably have solved the problem for themselves ! The point is that they don't know - just yet. As the discussion progresses the various people reading the thread have a chance to learn more from the ideas being kicked around, and participate too. Kevin.

Cheers,

Guy

Oopsy daisy :-(

Cheers,

Guy

I'd also recomend using a strobe light to check for any oscillation in the pins due to EMF aroudn the connection point.

Back off Brussels.

I would go as far as also checking the local substation to be sure.

Why then? To attract a nice sailor boy ? :-)

"GB" wrote

Don't forget to cross-post, too. ;-)

Mennekes do make a device for cleaning BS4343 style industrial connectors.

Mennekes do make a device for cleaning BS4343 style industrial connectors.

Absolutely, and the only amplifiers that are any good are those with gold plated connections, and it has to be a specific type of pure 24 carat gold as gold of lower impurity has a tendency to cause reflections of the high frequency signals when wired to speaker cable. And don't think any old speaker cable can be used for high quality sound. Decent speaker cable costs over £20 per meter. Also make sure you get Northern Hemisphere cable rather than Southern Hemisphere cable as the twists in the cable are different.

So, yes, tarnish is a scourge of not just audio but mains connections too.

Would this have to be oxygen free gold?

Currently I use silver [Maplin] with a nitrogen purge. I still get sibilance on medium frequencies. Will I have to keep the purge with gold?

What impedance is gold BTW?

HN