Electrical connector cleaner?

[Cato]

Any recommendations for an effective cleaner for automotive electrical connectors? It's been a while since I used any so wondered if there was something new, or a heathen brew I was unaware of.

I have generic contact cleaner, and the usual strip/scrape approach will be employed. It's for the connectors on the MT350 BTW, general clag giving higher resistances than you'd want. No doubt there will be some corrosion/green fur, but the ones I've opened so far don't seem too bad in that respect.

 

[123hotchef]

I normally use the stuff from beal UK

 

[mtt.tr]

Wd40 stuff works normally use it as its easy to get

 

[cheb]

I've soda blasted them and it worked well. On a Guzzi and various Japanese bikes.

 

[jsf55]

I can recommend the wurth contact cleaner as it does a really good job, but wear gloves as it stings for days !

 

[Windy Miller]

I can recommend the wurth contact cleaner as it does a really good job, but wear gloves as it stings for days !

What he said - is very very good!

 

[brightspark]

if its for de greasing and cleaning contacts and switches super servisol / been on the go for years

 

[mtt.tr]

ifits for degreasing and cleaning contacts and switches super servisol / been on the go for years

Yup definitely my fav

 

[8ob]

if its for de greasing and cleaning contacts and switches super servisol / been on the go for years

Yup definitely my fav

On that note I have ordered some to try, more for cleaning trailer sockets/plugs than anything else.

Bob

 

[dobbslc]

Good stuff and smells nice!

 

[brightspark]

carbon tets good but not realy used nowadays as carcinogenic. unless you allready have some and a paintbrush

 

[Anguz]

Power wash... rs fo it
Very impressed with it

 

[tom2207]

trailer sockets ... try acf 50 ,,,, it smells nice too.

 

[James1979]

Tygris works well.

There’s another with blue and black squares on it which we used to get with one shipping outfit. That was really good. I’ll try and remember/ find out what it was

edit - ambersill. It’s the dogs

 

[Mick Annick]

On that note I have ordered some to try, more for cleaning trailer sockets/plugs than anything else.

Bob

They won’t let me have an account

 

[8ob]

They won’t let me have an account

Mick I ordered this four pack which seemed reasonable https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143946326836

Bob

 

[grim_d]

Tygris works well.

There’s another with blue and black squares on it which we used to get with one shipping outfit. That was really good. I’ll try and remember/ find out what it was

edit - ambersill. It’s the dogs

It's all IPA based but I much preferred the tygris stuff as the ambertron evaporates way too quickly if you need to agitate the muck.

 

[tom2207]

Mick I ordered this four pack which seemed reasonable https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/143946326836

Bob

good price , its great stuff , ,I used to use it on amp pots. Used it recently on a corroded connector inside a Lab Gruppen and its never so much as crackled since.