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.

This worked great on fixing 3 worn out AT&T U-verse TV remote controls. The channel and volume buttons were barely responding. Application is simple-- if you can color a coloring book its no more difficult. You simply apply the silver "paint" to the pads on the back of the rubber membrane with the included brushes. I used a thick coat on every button, cured with a lightbulb and let dry overnight. The remotes are now working perfectly-- even better than new as it takes less pressure to activate the buttons. The only issue is that the tube you get is TINY and only a couple Q-tip style brushes. It was enough for me to treat every button on 3 large remotes and it should last longer if you use thinner coat or only do the worn out problem buttons. I cannot comment on if this is a permanent fix or not, but after several weeks I took it apart and the coating was still intact. Ultimately I'm very pleased with how it worked.

I purchase several things on Amazon and was giving pretty in-depth reviews. From this point on, here's the new agenda…. if it works as advertised, is well made, meets or exceeds the description, is a value, and arrives in a fair amount of time, it will get a "star rating" equal to what my expectations were/are. If it doesn't meet these criteria, then I will most definitely and descriptively tell the short comings of the products and you as a consumer will not have to go through the trouble of buying the product without some background knowledge. If the sell pulls that item and relists under another description, I will put the exact same review on the seller's feedback page. Sellers have done this a couple of times in the past, and I was true to my word then as well as now. DR

It was easy to clean the surfaces and to apply the new coating - the hardest part was taking the *^$%$%^ Harmony remote apart. As per the instructions, I gave it a couple of hours to dry under a heat lamp before reassembling. Unfortunately, that must not have been completely dry because it almost immediately gunked up and shorted a couple of the contacts, rendering the remote unusable. So I took it apart again, cleaned up the gunked areas, reapplied the coating, and this time I let it dry overnight - around 12-18 hours. Reassembled the remote the next day and every button's been working like a charm for a few weeks now. Wonderful stuff!

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.

Had remote control that had a faulty volume control. Even after cleaning the contacts, it still didn't work well. Coated the contacts with CaiKote and like magic, the volume control worked great again. Similarly, had 2 RFID key fobs for a car which would not work well anymore. Opened up the fobs and noticed the worn battery contacts on the PCB and coated them with CaiKote and again, the key fobs work like they were brand new. Great product. EDIT: I see what other reviewers mean. This stuff works for a few months, but eventually it wears out. In one case, it started short-circuiting in my remote control and randomly triggering button presses.

Worked great for about a week after applying to my tv remote keys. Now giving problems.

When the first remote stopped working I bought a second. When that stopped working I bought this kit, and now both are working fine.

Repairing remote control

It works well, as expected. Saves $$ will recommend it to every one looking to fix soft keypads.

Used this to replace contacts on 2 controllers, one was Sky and the other an adjustamatic bed controller. well worth the money as saved a fortune on replacement controllers.