I noticed that the last time the phone guy came around to fix a problem
with an exterior wiring mess on the house, he looked at the crimp
connectors and said "whoa, those are the old style. I'm going to
replace them with these." He pulled out a pocketful of crimp connectors
filled with a nonconductive protective gel. Not long after that I was
getting some wire fitting for where brother-in-law cut underground
romex with a shovel, I noticed the outdoor underground wirenuts were
filled with the same thing,

If you can't find a tube of this stuff at home depot, maybe buy a pack
of the big underground waterproof wirenuts and get the goop out of
there. I'm planning to. It looked very clean, and much longer-lasting
than vaseline.

Jim

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 08:31 AM, dr wrote:

> I have always used vasoline.  Grease is good also, but a bit more
> messy.  They definitely help with corrosion.  Semi truck electrical
> components such as taillights have grease fittings on them, so its a
> known and proven benefit.
>
> dr
>
>
>
> Kevin Mulligan <mulligan_kevin@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
>>
>> Stupid question, I know, but in the past I've seen
>> batteries that 1) had their terminals greased
>> (Vaseline?), 2) had the connection spray-coated with
>> some sort of clear lacquer-like substance (I even
>> bought some of this stuff once, but was later told it
>> would do more harm than good), and 3) had no grease or
>> coating, but simply a felt washer placed on the
>> terminals before connecting the battery leads.
>
>
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