Subject: Re: Relay switches
Author: psabr-@aol.com
Date: Jun 6, 2001, 9:17 AM
Post ID: 1707011243
Gentlemen,
I believe your "Tune-up Grease" or Dialectric grease is used throughout the Telecommunications industry as "No-OX" and some other names. Have an 8oz. tube in my hand (enough to last you and your friends 5-10 years). Label Reads "No-OX-ID A Special Compound" mfrd by Sanchem, Inc of Chicago. This stuff is also normally available in 1 or 2oz tins.
In this business it is a requirement in many Phone companies that all Electrical and grounding connections be cleand and coated with a thin layer of this stuff. keeps that nasty oxygen away from the clean metal surfaces. Power Systems in a phone office are typically 48 VDC (sometimes 24) and backed up by strings of 24 wet cells at 2 volts each (probably 18" in diameter and 24-30 inches tall). Similar batteries were used in the old Diesel Submarines for their submerged power.
As a plug. McMaster should have this stuff. My company (Anixter) also sells it (see www.anixter.com) as should anybody selling telecom oriented products.
David Whitmore
71 Ambassorado (guzzi content)