CaiKot 44, Conductive Silver/Carbon Coating for most surfaces

It's crazy that this little tiny vial and $0.25 worth of "accessories" is $20, but I paid it and it worked beyond expectations. I used this to fix two things, my Kitchenaid refrigerator's water dispenser pad and my garage door keypad. Both were worn out and required pressing about as hard as you could to get them to work. I took them apart, applied the paint to the pads, and now they work as good if not better than new. I noted that the instructions said for best results cure at 125F, so after applying I just set the pads on a furnace register for 1.5 hours.Again, quite expensive for this little tiny vial, but I'll probably never use it all in my lifetime and it saved me at least $200 and saved my gear from ending up in a landfill.UPDATE: Well it's been 6-7 months and I just had to redo my refrigerator water dispenser pad. It just got worse and worse until about the 6 month mark where it was as bad as it was before I bought this stuff. This time I tried using a thicker application, and I used my 3D printer heat bed set at 60c and left the pad on there for 25 minutes to dry and cure. Hopefully I'll get longer than a few months this time, but if I only have to do this once or twice a year it's still better than replacing a $200 switch pad.

Worked like a charm. I have a vintage Meade telescope with Autostar and the controller buttons barely worked I cleaned the contacts and got no improvement I had to really mash the buttons to sometimes get a response I literally did one small coat and let it dry but saw it said for optimum results cure at 125°f for 5-10 min so I set the toster oven to warm use a thermocouple to check it was at temp it was hovering between 111 & 130 took it out 5 minutes later installed after it cooled and it's like brand new very satisfied these controllers are impossible to get they went out of business years ago

this stuff is great. Some keys on a couple remotes were just not working. just open the remote apply this stuff on the back of the rubber keypad & bingo the remotes works as new. A must have for anyone with remotes.

My old MIDI keyboard uses rubber contact strips with the same principle as remotes. Pressing a key activates a sound. The carbon dots are probably worn out as some keys no longer work. Did a resistance test on them and anything around 10K is too low to activate the key, (the standard is around 100 to 1000K). The replacement part is no longer available from the manufacturer so I tried this stuff on them following the instructions and got nothing. Didn't make any sense to me why this wouldn't work so I tested it on a piece of plastic and got zero resistance, (no conductivity). Did I get a bad batch? I gave up on this but kept playing around with it as I did a little more research. I grounded down some graphite from a pencil, mixed it into some of this silver coating and repainted the carbon dot. Once dry, I did a resistance test on it again and WOW! it worked. So all is not lost. But this Caikote 44 on it's own did not work for me. On it's own my batch once dry did not have any conductivity what so ever. So my conclusion is some of this stuff is poorly made and may not work in some cases as it happened to me.

I was having trouble with my CPAP machine and the power button. It was a membrane button and it got to where you had to really press it hard and angle it just right to get it to turn on or off. I know it’s $1 billion to fix those things so I turned to YouTube university and found a guy that talked about fixing his S8 CPAP machine. I watch the video he said this is the stuff he used. I figured why not give it a shot it looks easy and it’s pretty inexpensive. I’m not the handiest guy in the world but it was easy and it worked great. Truly a no hassle easy fix. I wish I could remember the video but the guy on YouTube has the S8 model like me so if you search for S8 CPAP repair you’ll probably get him and follow what he does and you’ll be rocking like Dokken and sleeping great again

The product itself is easy enough to use. The hard part is taking apart your remote without damaging it. After that it’s clean, rough, lightly apply. I would suggest testing the remote before fully assembling it. The longevity of the fix is not good. You will end up going back into the remote and redoing this job periodically as the silver paint will eventually fall off. However, this is an acceptable way to add life to an otherwise irreplaceable remote.

High quality conductive ink recommended, as well as the seller

I have an old Logitech Harmony 520 remote which I acquired about 5 years ago. Lately, the button to change "Device" had become unresponsive and in order for it to work I would have to press down extremely hard at different angles multiple times in order for it to register. I tried cleaning the contacts but that didn't help at all and was pretty much intent on picking up another Logitech remote. It seemed a bit of a waste though and I came upon a website which mentioned using CaiKote 44.Using the included swab, I applied a few dabs on each of the contacts on the button membrane and spread it out - not too thick and not too thin. I placed the button membrane near my gaming PC to use the heat from it to help it dry and left it for about 24 hours. After reassembling the remote, the button in question now works as new.It's been a few months now and it's been working flawlessly. CaiKote 44 has saved me around $100 since I didn't have to purchase another Logitech remote which has the features I need. For $12, it's definitely worth a try if you've given up on your remote and are about to toss it or buy a new one.*Edit* Just want to say that it's been almost a year and the remote is still working fine.