Pad Cleaning w/ pics

dexnefex wrote:

You can see how dirty the contacts are in this pic. The carbon pad is actually missing the corner, but is still good and valuable.



This is after cleaning with isopropyl alcohol and a Q-Tip.



This is how much carbon residue was on the contacts.



I used a small applicator bottle for the alcohol to control the amount.



It was hard to show in a pic, but I used a very small amount of KE-45-T silicone RTV at each corner of the contact, and carefully placed the carbon sheet down with tweezers, pressing each corner carefully to adhere the sheet.



Here are my tool, I used a small syringe for the RTV, it worked perfectly but I still went back and dabbed the corners because there were "icicles" and I didn't like the way they looked.

Just wanted to show a quick easy (and successful) pad repair.
It took some patience and a few specialty items, but I got it done in a day and the pads respond as if they are brand new. I hope this was informative to someone attempting a cleaning.

diceroll wrote:is that mpc 1000? coz ive stripped my mpc to the panties and my pads look a bit different. what i mean is i cannot dismantle each individual pad. all i got is a block of 16 pads, glued to the metal frame.