^I hear you. If it's anything like the sensors in the E30 AFM (which it appears to be) the contact strip is not usually the problem. The contactors wear out and no longer make reliable contact to the strip whose composition escapes me right now. But cleaning the contact strip and replacing the ring with the contacts should repair it. I'll compare the two when it gets here. Coming from Germany though so could be a week, could be a month.

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