I knew it couldn't be conductive, since I tend to slather it all over
any electrical union.  If it were conductive I'd have shorts all over
the place.

Karl Wolz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of Ed
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 2:41 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: The nature of dielectric grease
>
> From the brief bit of research I did online, here is what I found out
about
> dielectric grease: It is used as you guessed at the end of your post-
the
> goal is for the electricity to be only flowing at the contact points,
and
> not jumping or arcing anywhere else. The site I found mentioned it
will
> prevent sparking and resultant oxidation and corrosion. I'm glad you
brought
> this up, because I had thought it was conductive as well.
>
> Ed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Fisher" <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 5:06 PM
> Subject: The nature of dielectric grease; was Re: Charging better
>
> > I suppose I could be misinterpreting what folks are saying about
their use
> > of the stuff... I also suppose that if you coated a contact with it
you
> > could still get conductivity where the grease was pushed aside and
you had
> > metal-to-metal contact, but that seems iffy.
> >
> > Am I missing something here?
> >
> > Cya
> > Robert