Re: [Paddlewise] Misc GPS questions

From: Steve Holtzman <sh_at_actglobal.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:57:18 -0700
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Dave,

That's what I tried first, but I was still unable to get a good electrical
contact and it was refusing to communicate with my PC. The graphite trick
worked---but it still looks like the contacts are getting worse just from
exposure to salt air.

Sure wish, Garmin would use a better method than a rubber plug to protect
those contacts.

Steve Holtzman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Kruger"

> I had always understood that one should use the
> __eraser__ end of a pencil on the contacts, to clean them.  The rubber
eraser
> is a gentle abrasive.
> flashlight bulbs, computer plugins, etc., and it seems to work.
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