I am looking for a word of advice on how to clean up the pins inside of my bulkhead.
Over the time, inside of my bulkhead started looking bad. Seems I was not really careful and did not clean often on between dives and they got stuff on then.
What should I do now? How to get to factory shine of pins :-)
In terms of moving forward, do you use some lubricant to protect the pins, like maybe DeoxIT Gold? I see it is very used by rebreather divers for pins on controller bulkheads.
Thanks,
Marko
Hi Marko,
I use DeoxIT D series cleaner to clean off existing oxidisation, followed by Gold for long term protection.
Adam
Do they still work? No need to go crazy if so, though Deoxit is good stuff.
More worrying is the threads which may glue themselves to the threads on your sync cable after a bit. I've found it beneficial to remove the build up of gunk and leave open to dry periodically.
For years I have used a fibreglass scratch pen/pencil. Works really well and shift all the green corrosion and gunk that you get on pins. And as the glass threads work like a propelling pencil, you can wind them out to get right down to the bottom of a bulkhead if necessary. Only the size of a normal pen so I always take one on trips. Amazon UK have them at about £3.50. Wouldn't be without one.
