How to clean ground points
Three Wheelin'
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From: St Louis, Missouri, USA
I'll have to see what I have in different shapes.
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From: Glasgow, Scotland.
Posted this before in a similar thread but could help others.
In the UK there is a terrific product called WAXOYL.
It is used a lot by the military and on offshore oil and
gas rigs in the North sea.
It is a thickish liquid can be painted, sprayed or spread on
with a cloth which dries to leave a thick dry waxy coating.
The coating is durable, water dispersant and "heals" if scored.
It would be ideal for protecting cleaned ground points.
I have used this stuff as an underseal, cavity wax and assembly lubricant.
Underbody parts assembled and coated seem to resist
the winter blasting with salty grit spread on our roads
and come apart easily years later.
It cleans and protects rubber, gives tyres a lovely matt black finish
and even works as a hand cleaner. After I finish working on my car
I wipe all my tools with a Waxoyled rag which cleans them and leaves
a dry rust resisting coating. It really is the most useful substance and
I would not be without it.
http://www.waxoylrustproofing.co.uk/...stproofing.php
In the UK there is a terrific product called WAXOYL.
It is used a lot by the military and on offshore oil and
gas rigs in the North sea.
It is a thickish liquid can be painted, sprayed or spread on
with a cloth which dries to leave a thick dry waxy coating.
The coating is durable, water dispersant and "heals" if scored.
It would be ideal for protecting cleaned ground points.
I have used this stuff as an underseal, cavity wax and assembly lubricant.
Underbody parts assembled and coated seem to resist
the winter blasting with salty grit spread on our roads
and come apart easily years later.
It cleans and protects rubber, gives tyres a lovely matt black finish
and even works as a hand cleaner. After I finish working on my car
I wipe all my tools with a Waxoyled rag which cleans them and leaves
a dry rust resisting coating. It really is the most useful substance and
I would not be without it.
http://www.waxoylrustproofing.co.uk/...stproofing.php
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Folks for some reason seem to think that dielectric grease is what's best for electrical connections.
Actually,I guess people think that it acts as a smear on insulator and since it's non-conductive, prevents corrosion.
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Manfred... If you're going to go looking... here's a story... I spent a summer building fighter jets (a few years back now) and I had an illegal tool that I used for this little job (and btw the grounding spec for electronics is rediculously hard to acheive - special meter just to check it). Anyway, the tool was a drill bit type of tool and conical brush as mentioned but had a small pin in the center, slip the pin in the hole, zzzt zzzt with a battery drill and bam, done. Put the brush back in my pocket and beep the QA guy (God, how I hated those QA weanies). After the inspection, we would cover the whole connection in this nasty sealant - kinda like JB weld.... Bruce
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My '79 had a lot of electrical corrosion issues. Recently I pulled out the whole panel and cleaned everything with scotchbrite and made all the connection very pretty. Still had a bunch of issues though. Then, I followed some suggestion here and got some de-oxit at radio shack. Really amazing results. Connections that just did not want to work suddenly perfect. Later I went through the interior lights on my '88. None of them were working, partilly because of the switch inside the light itself. It was really fun to spray the stuff on the the connections and watch the lights come on in real time. Normal electrical cleaner did nothing. Cleaning with scotchbride helped a little but not enough, but one shot of de-oxit and they started working and they have been reliable. I think there is also a de-oxit product that is focused on protection rather than just cleaning.
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It was really fun to spray the stuff on the the connections and watch the lights come on in real time
Sounds magical. There was a post in one of the CE panel threads about how much brighter the headlamps were after the cleaning.
The stabilant22 stuff is supposed to be spec'd for airplane electronics so it's pretty stout stuff but it's more for maintaining a non-corroded connection for years to come, not for cleaning as the de-oxit is. I wonder what happens though when de-oxit residue and stabilant22 combine...
