Best cleaner / lubricant for dirty 2500 Q Link sliders?

I am a new owner of my first MPC 2500, and the Q-Link sliders arrived pretty dirty and not very smooth at all. One of them barely worked (only registering a few values) until I sprayed it out with compressed air (which may have been a dumb idea, as it now registers all values but moves even less smoothly than before).

I've seen a lot of unverified mentions of Deoxit D5 but also some people saying not to use it on sliders, and also a couple mentions of Deoxit Fader Lube. However, most of these posts (here and on other sites) seem to be guesses rather than successful cleanings.

Any recommendations?

Thanks.

IMHO... I'd first vacuum out the faders while working them back & forth. I find this method works the easiest, cheapest and best.
Then later spray in the cleaner/lube if needed.

I've personally never had bad results with dexoit, maybe I'm fortunate.

I tried Servisol Super 10 on mine (at first) after I bought a 2500 on ebay that had sticky sliders and it loosened them up nicely, but I cleaned most of the gunk out while I did it. It isn't really suitable though as they started to stiffen up again almost immediately afterwards. I eventually settled on Deoxit F100, a fader lube as opposed to a switch cleaner. However, suspecting that i'd bought an abused one (due to the stiff sliders - before I loosened them up), I bought another mint condition 2500 SE and that also felt like it had stiff sliders, so I think it might just be how they are, at least to a point. These aren't super slick like dj mixer faders (which is what I was used to and expected them to feel like on the 2500).

I can say that the sliders of the original 2500 that I bought, lubed with the F100, slide nicer than the mint SE's Q Link sliders, but they both have different feels due to one of the actual sliders (as opposed to the complete PCB board) in my original 2500 had been swapped out with a galvanised replacement and that seems to be the cause of a slight rubbing of metal on metal. I guess it had had a low quality repair part.

I have picked up a new Q Link pcb from MPC Stuff that I was hoping would tell me one way or another if these sliders have just stiffened up through grime, but i've decided to leave it sealed up for future use.

Small (2ml) tubes of F100 can be bought on ebay for about £5 and I expect that one should last me 2 or 3 years or more.

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not that that word would be in there - but you catch my drift

lol... dexoit...
I think he meant Detox... Dre's album.

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