[Amps] Dielectric Greases

donroden at hiwaay.net donroden at hiwaay.net
Wed Jul 11 21:08:39 EDT 2018


After finding corrosion in PL259s and Type"N" connectors, I started  
flooding each connector with  DC-5,   160 meters through 432  
repeaters. I took a repeater connector apart some thirty years later  
and it looked as new as the day I installed it,   I'm a FAN !!

Don W4DNR



Quoting "Roger (K8RI)" <k8ri at rogerhalstead.com>:

> His uses do not go back far enough, as I said earlier, DC4 Compound  
> (dielectric grease) was developed to use in the spark plug seals on  
> B17s in WWII by Dow Corning. Its use prevented arcing at very high  
> altitudes.



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