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Old 18th Apr 2012, 12:18 pm   #6
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Default Re: Silver dip: what's the secret?

Back in the 1970's, when there was a Worldwide shortage of 74H series IC's, the component jobbing company I worked for bought up 1000's 'out of date' (tarnished pins) stock we could find.

Even so, buying & QA departments wouldn't touch tarnished product with a barge pole so, we resorted to dunking the tarnished product into washing-up bowls filled with Goddards Silver-Dip and then rinsed them in warm water and they came up looking brand new and we barely met the supply demand & could charge 5 -10x the pre-shortage prices.

We made a fortune during that period !
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