Sounds strange to me as well. I am a mechanical engineer and an old boy electrician�showed it to me up in Kodiak Alaska. There is a lot of corrosion and rust up there. While I was chief engineer of a plant we used it on lots of conductive points and other electrical connections. It solved many problems for us. Who knows maybe we got lucky. But I do swear by it today. I had a 89 Toyota 4X4 truck that was giving me a lot of rough running and hard start issues, it felt like a bad ignition switch. But the plant electrician pop-ed the top off my air flow meter smeared on some dielectric silicon grease on the point where the needle runs�and the truck ran better than ever from that day on. Every 2 months or so it would start to run rough again and I would pop off the top and re apply the grease and problem solved. I guess to each his own........

Danny 
'84 Westy (Vanny)
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--- On Tue, 6/9/09, Roland <syncronicity1@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

From: Roland <syncronicity1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Correct use of Dielectric grease?
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Date: Tuesday, June 9, 2009, 9:07 PM

Hello folks,

I was reading the discussion about high powered headlights overheating some
connectors, and again I saw mention that use of dielectric grease is good
practice.� .... to put it on the contacts.� Of course I've seen it
referenced many times.

But this confuses me.� Dielectric grease is an insulator, right?� It is
non-conductive.� Why would we put it on the contacts where we want a better
connection?� Why wouldn't we use conductive grease on contacts?� Or is the
proper application of dielectric grease to put it on the outside of the
connector, but never on the contact points themselves?� I keep a tube of
conductive grease around the garage, use it only very rarely.� If we use
dielectric grease only on the outside of a connection, why not just use heat
shrink tubing?

Thanks!
Roland