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and clean the contacts well with emmery paper.
I've used a fine grade of 'wet 'n' dry' - 400 or 600 from memory. If you cut a 1/4" strip and fold it over the end of a small screwdriver you can get inside the male part of the connectors to clean them. It's also useful for cleaning the bulb contacts themselves which can give problems from time to time.
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citronut wrote:Doc wrote
" twist the pins"

wont this just oppen the jaws in the plug's even more,

regards malcolm
Not really, unless you go nuts twisting the pins, the connectors are spring steel for a reason!

As for the KY, I was largely joking there, although I know someone thats done it before, since he kept KY in the car (I didn't ask) and had no contact spray / vaseline.
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