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 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

EDIT: If you make sure it is well mixed, use multiple layers, and ensure it is COMPLETELY dry, it'll be more conductive. Doing this in the thinnest layer possible that was still conductive still ended up being too thick for my gap. Adding a star, but I guess I need to be painting with gold leaf for what I need to accomplish.----I was expecting it to be more conductive. It does decrease the resistance, more than say, the plastic it is painted on. But this turned out not to be enough to fix my application, which was a fairly standard conductive printed button sheet that makes contact with a round indentation.Testing with a multimeter, it is not even close to the same conductive ability of the worn spots I was trying to replace.I don't wrote many reviews, so I am just trying to be helpful. I will be looking for something with more conductivity, like copper or aluminum tape I suppose.