[TowerTalk] Aluminum Boom Lubricant: Yes or Nope?

[Rob Atkinson]

>There's also several u-tube videos concerning Noalox, one of which claims electricians no longer need to use it for aluminum wire connections because over the past decades, wire manufacturers have changed from >providing "pure aluminum" wire to wire using an aluminum alloy called 8800, which doesn't oxidize as easily as "pure aluminum" (end quote).

My experience with Al wire (my service drop to my main breaker is
aluminum) is that oxidation isn't the problem.  The problem with
aluminum wire is that it cold flows over a period of several years.
Once every few years I take a big flat head screwdriver and carefully
tighten the breaker bolts if they need it.  Maybe the 8800 is good for
Al to Al in wire nuts.

Rob
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