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In Reply to: RE: I'd figure all the original Monster has turned bright green ... posted by Crazy Dave on March 25, 2014 at 14:29:10
It is the PVC: Poly Vinyl Chloride. The chlorides eventually leach out and attack the bare copper. I thought it was environmental factors till I noticed the middle of a 30 foot run of Monster has green almost black and the ends were relatively pristine. Couldn't be air running along the copper insulation interface.
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I pulled these from Acoustat Medallion transformers years ago. :)
On the other hand, oxidation happens. Here is the cloth I recently used on all my *gold plated* jacks and connectors from the last two year cleaning using Deoxit. The upper left section is just from the unused jacks on an Audio Research preamp!
Makes sense, When rubber insulation is used the copper is wrapped with a thin paper to seperate the copper from the insulation otherwise the sulfur in the rubber will oxidize the copper.
Monster cable using cheap PVC perhaps?
I have read that it did have something to do with the composition of the PVC. Apparently some formulas are better than others.
Dave
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