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The issues are: tact switches that get unresponsive very quickly, the sliders may get wonky after an extended period of non-use (deoxit fixes both those problems), and the old pad design of the 1000.
Deoxit is horrible crap, it's only used by clueless techs. You might have wanted to read up on it before using it.
Moog Music Forum • View topic - Mini-Moog Osc Board Scale/Octave Trimpot cleaning?
"The stuff works great at first and everyone thinks all is well.
Then it corrodes metal, attracts dust and causes more problems than it had before.
I'm still looking for one maker of pots or switches that add this stuff to their products at the time of manufacturer.
One would think if it was so good, many would be using it.
But I can't find one.
Moog's early service manuals sometimes advocated it.
Later manuals discouraged against it.
They too learned what the long-term problems are.
Your mileage is up to you, but I don't use and haven't for decades and I'm very glad I don't.
It's snake oil designed to take your money and fix things for a short time.
(fwiw, I've been working on synths for 36 years... I think that's long enough to know.)"