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    microwave rotary switch contacts go bad requently

    Hi, I have a 11 year old microwave Siemens and the main function selector switch is a rotary type. It goes bad every few months, there are carbon (?) pads and the metal contacts that drive on them create concentric circle tracks from the residue.
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    I clean the tracks and the metal contacts with IPA and it works few months again. Here you can see the contacts:
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    Once I tried this contact cleaner: Kontakt 60 https://www.tme.eu/Document/3f58feb2...TAKT60.DTE.PDF, but it only lasted few weeks, so probably not a good choice.
    Is there any more lasting solution?
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    From what I see it's worn quite a bit on certain places. Chemtronics makes a carbon trac repair kit. Kinda paint over it, let it dry, done. Or use conductive paint. Cleaner won't help much here, and it's probably is too late for the leaded pencil trick.
    If it would be mine, I'd take some fine sand paper and roughen the bad carbon tracks very gently. Clean with 99% IPA. Paint over with something conductive and Bob is your uncle.

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      #3
      lube it with dialectric grease

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