(Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (i.e. headers/footers/sig lines/comments from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material and list footers when replying to posts.) 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. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Aug 07 2002 - 06:21:42 PDT
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