Dielectric Grease

Dec 24, 2016 18 Replies

I had a poorly soldered wire acting up. I smeared some Permatex tune up grease on it and it solved the problem.



It doesn't seem to be a good conductor except when 2 metal contacts coated with it actually touch, then the resistance drops noticeably as compared to the dry electrodes.


Bret Cahill


So you think this is an adequate solution for fixing a poor solder joint?

Dielectric contact enhancer.

Read this:

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It'll certainly make it harder to fix the joint correctly later on!

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It's surprising this isn't used on many or most contacts. That way you don't need a lot of skill tightening connections to guarantee low resistance.

Bret Cahill

Bret, One doesn't need a lot of skill to make sure a connection is tight. Maybe there is some similar stuff I can put on the lug nuts of by truck wheels just in case I didn't get them tight enough.

analogous stuff?

Ordinarily there shouldn't be much of a voltage drop from your wheels to the lugs.

Ad if you meant mechanically there is: Loctite.

Bret Cahill

Either you didn't get my point or are just ignoring it. There is no magic paste for fixing a job done incorrectly.

Duct tape fixes everything.

All hacks are based on doing something "incorrectly," i.e., using a heat gun to cook scrambled eggs in motel rooms w/o microwave ovens.

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That's the _whole point_ of the tRUMP Administration:

To be politically incorrect!

Why do I bother? Happy New Year.

Maybe he likes a challenge.

Huh, Non-polar semiconductor (link says Non-polad.. but I'm assuming a mis-print.) I wonder what it is?

George H.

Ughh, I hate reading patents! it does say this, "As noted, the contact stabilization materials of the present invention may comprise a plurality of block polymers of polyoxypropylene together with polyoxyethylene."

Thanks anyway.

George H.

Every sisubstance contains at least a little water, unless its been specifically dehydrated, like cement mix.

fically dehydrated, like cement mix.

and like Hillary & Anderson Cooper, the former flattered so out of touch wi th reality she had to be gong hooked by the very media who created the hide ous mess in the first place.

But no one can blame me. I'm 100% big tent. I don't believe in flicking a nyone like a booger like Hillary wanted to flick Putin, flick Sanders, flic k her own staff, flick the DNC, flick voters, and for that matter, flick ev eryone on the planet except, of course, the legacy media which is routinely and properly ridiculed by the _Guardian_.

tRUMP is significantly different than Hillary in that he wants to flick the legacy media as well as all the above.

Contact the Bob Graham Center and they'll tell you the most under valued po litical truth behind successful activism of all time:

"If you cannot say something nice then don't say anything at all."

Bret Cahill

" I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat."

-- Will Rogers (comparing the toughness of the Democratic Party to an elast omer molecule)

"It's addition, not subtraction"

-- Gov. Brown

"How can I give people what they deserve? I can only give them what I have ."

-- Nietzsche

I prefer mercy but justice is all I see people get.

-- some biker

Sorry, I meant to say 'substance'.

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