[GreenKeys] Yet another magic lubricant

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Lee:

The guy who installed my first satellite internet system used Radio 
Shack Lube Gel in the type-F RF connectors.  It's a Silicon based grease 
made under a patent 5037566 which is about blending the grease without 
allowing any Oxygen to be entrapped.  The other idea is that the 
dielectric constant of the grease (e=2 something) is close to that of 
the plastic used in coax cables so it keeps out the water (e=60) which 
can cause large VSWRs.
http://www.prc68.com/I/FlashlightPat.shtml#CF
I've also used it on vacuum tube pins.  I know it's an insulator, but 
like wire wrap there's places where the metal parts touch.  And by 
surrounding those places with something that's air tight oxidation is 
prevented.  http://www.prc68.com/I/HaT.shtml#109

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
http://www.PRC68.com


Lee Mushel wrote:
> Well, you guys never seem to like my lubrication suggestions but here is
> another one.   Go to a plumbing supply store.   No, you can't go to a big
> box store---they won't know what you're talking about.   I mean a little
> place that does nothing but sell plumbing supplies and all you find are rows
> of old lavatories and toilets in the display area but out back they stock
> parts for faucets made in 1903..
>
> Ask them for some silicone lubricant.  They will assume that you really
> don't want a "serious" product since you don't look like a plumber.   So
> they will suggest some dumb, runny black goop in a jar or bottle.   Say,
> "No, I want the stuff that comes in a little tin jar with about a half ounce
> in it."   You will know you have the right stuff when he tells you that the
> dinky quantity costs $10. It is a colorless grease.
>
> What you have is a lubricant that makes faucets work forever and is,
> obviously, totally inert because you will be consuming a few atoms from time
> to time.   Apply to your plastic gears in the thinnest possible way and I
> think you will be pleased.
>
> I will say, once again, for any other lubrication application, use Tri-Flo.
> If it's good enough for machine guns it's good enough for teletype machines.
>
> 73
>
> Lee   K9WRU
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