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How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
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Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??
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How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)

Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??

Application? Will not twist? How much torque in each direction?
Easily pull apart as in? just pull back, or manually disconnect?
More details man - there's at least a thousand ways of doing something
that MIGHT fit your reqiuirements.

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BoyntonStu wrote:
How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)

Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


There's a reason that poles usually telescope.

If I absolutely had to daisy-chain the poles,
I'd look at using Dinse welding cable connectors
to mechanically hold the lengths together.
They are nice, tight twist-lock connectors and
the price is entirely reasonable for what you get.

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On Dec 14, 8:46 pm, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu
wrote:

How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Application? Will not twist? How much torque in each direction?
Easily pull apart as in? just pull back, or manually disconnect?
More details man - there's at least a thousand ways of doing something
that MIGHT fit your reqiuirements.

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On Dec 14, 8:46 pm, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu
wrote:

How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Application? Will not twist? How much torque in each direction?
Easily pull apart as in? just pull back, or manually disconnect?
More details man - there's at least a thousand ways of doing something
that MIGHT fit your reqiuirements.

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Light pole changer. Must twist in both directions.

Bring down bulb from 15' ceiling.

Place 10' pole on floor.

Remove upper 5' pole.

Place upper pole on floor.

Remove bulb.


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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:

How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)

Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley. Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that on
the end.
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:
How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley. Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that on
the end.


Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.
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wrote:

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:

How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley. Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that on
the end.



Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.


I like the PVC suggestion.

Cross drill and stick a screw through 'em.

Richard
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On Dec 14, 10:01 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
BoyntonStu wrote:
On Dec 14, 9:16 pm, _
wrote:


On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:


How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley. Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that on
the end.


Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.


I like the PVC suggestion.

Cross drill and stick a screw through 'em.

Richard


Not fast enough.

Slip on, twist without slipping, slip off.

No more than 1 second to slip poles together or to pull them apart.
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BoyntonStu wrote:

On Dec 14, 10:01 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:

BoyntonStu wrote:

On Dec 14, 9:16 pm, _
wrote:


On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:


How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley. Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that on
the end.


Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.


I like the PVC suggestion.

Cross drill and stick a screw through 'em.

Richard



Not fast enough.

Slip on, twist without slipping, slip off.

No more than 1 second to slip poles together or to pull them apart.



Why?
'cuz that seems a bit over the top.




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On Dec 14, 10:17 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
BoyntonStu wrote:
On Dec 14, 10:01 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:


BoyntonStu wrote:


On Dec 14, 9:16 pm, _
wrote:


On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:


How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley. Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that on
the end.


Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.


I like the PVC suggestion.


Cross drill and stick a screw through 'em.


Richard


Not fast enough.


Slip on, twist without slipping, slip off.


No more than 1 second to slip poles together or to pull them apart.


Why?
'cuz that seems a bit over the top.


That is the spec.

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:52:24 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu
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On Dec 14, 8:46 pm, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu
wrote:

How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Application? Will not twist? How much torque in each direction?
Easily pull apart as in? just pull back, or manually disconnect?
More details man - there's at least a thousand ways of doing something
that MIGHT fit your reqiuirements.

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Light pole changer. Must twist in both directions.

Bring down bulb from 15' ceiling.

Place 10' pole on floor.

Remove upper 5' pole.

Place upper pole on floor.

Remove bulb.


Why not use a tension cord and a tab and slot arrangement or pin and
slot. The tension cord holds ittogether, you pull it apart and fold it
so you don't have to go chase the bottom end when it rolls across the
floor.
3/4" tubing with a "plug" screwed, glued or rivetted in one end,
with"tits" sticking out the side Slot cut in end of second pole which
fits snuggly, but not tight over the protruding plug. Tension cord run
through center of plug from end to end of combined pole.

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On Dec 14, 11:35 pm, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:
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On Dec 14, 8:46 pm, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu
wrote:


How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Application? Will not twist? How much torque in each direction?
Easily pull apart as in? just pull back, or manually disconnect?
More details man - there's at least a thousand ways of doing something
that MIGHT fit your reqiuirements.


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Light pole changer. Must twist in both directions.


Bring down bulb from 15' ceiling.


Place 10' pole on floor.


Remove upper 5' pole.


Place upper pole on floor.


Remove bulb.


Why not use a tension cord and a tab and slot arrangement or pin and
slot. The tension cord holds ittogether, you pull it apart and fold it
so you don't have to go chase the bottom end when it rolls across the
floor.
3/4" tubing with a "plug" screwed, glued or rivetted in one end,
with"tits" sticking out the side Slot cut in end of second pole which
fits snuggly, but not tight over the protruding plug. Tension cord run
through center of plug from end to end of combined pole.

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Not a bad idea.

However the tension cord prevents the user from separating the 2
halves should they require only a 5' pole.

The tab and slot is where my thinking is going.

Let's start with 2 - 3/4" Dia wood poles.

Drill a hole for a 1/4" dowel into both.

Remember, there is to bending force, only compression.

Dado cut across the ends forming 2 slots and 2 tabs in both.

Place loose fitting dowel with glue into 1.

(You could start off with tubing and do the same.)

Done!

What do you think?
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On Dec 14, 11:35 pm, clare at snyder.on.ca wrote:


Why not use a tension cord and a tab and slot arrangement or pin and
slot. The tension cord holds ittogether, you pull it apart and fold it
so you don't have to go chase the bottom end when it rolls across the
floor.
3/4" tubing with a "plug" screwed, glued or rivetted in one end,
with"tits" sticking out the side Slot cut in end of second pole which
fits snuggly, but not tight over the protruding plug. Tension cord run
through center of plug from end to end of combined pole.

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Not a bad idea.

However the tension cord prevents the user from separating the 2
halves should they require only a 5' pole.

The tab and slot is where my thinking is going.

Let's start with 2 - 3/4" Dia wood poles.

Drill a hole for a 1/4" dowel into both.

Remember, there is to bending force, only compression.

Dado cut across the ends forming 2 slots and 2 tabs in both.

Place loose fitting dowel with glue into 1.

(You could start off with tubing and do the same.)

Done!

What do you think?


They'd soon split and fall apart due to unforseen side pressures
unless the slot was short and the doweling long.

Why are you not buying standard, off-the-shelf light bulb tools?

Another consideration is the spring-loaded dowel like pool skimmers
use. It prevents twisting or pulling apart until the dowel is
depressed. Like this: http://tinyurl.com/32yg6h

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, BoyntonStu wrote:
On Dec 14 wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:


How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley. Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that on
the end.


Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.


Swage one pipe so they slide together, "Wishbone" style pin lock
like used on swimming pool vacuum poles.

But I use a standard twist-to-lock painters roller style pole to
change light bulbs all the time. If you have to put enough torque on
the pole that overrides the locking tension on the pole sections,
you've got bigger problems with either the lamps or the sockets.

First, you have to define the REAL problem, then you can solve it.

Cheap imported aluminum base lamps and cheap aluminum shell sockets
are always bad separately, but when they are combined and you add any
moisture at all and allow time for them to corrode to each other...

Buy the better brass or nickel plated brass based lamps, and brass
shell sockets. Then they'll come apart without a big fight.

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On Dec 14, 10:17 pm, cavelamb himself wrote:
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snip
Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.


I like the PVC suggestion.


Cross drill and stick a screw through 'em.


Richard


Not fast enough.


Slip on, twist without slipping, slip off.


No more than 1 second to slip poles together or to pull them apart.


Why?
'cuz that seems a bit over the top.


That is the spec.


So cross drill the coupling portion and insert a suitable
roll-pin. Cut notches in the mating pipe to fit roll-pin.

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BoyntonStu wrote:
How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)

Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


There's a reason that poles usually telescope.

If I absolutely had to daisy-chain the poles,
I'd look at using Dinse welding cable connectors
to mechanically hold the lengths together.
They are nice, tight twist-lock connectors and
the price is entirely reasonable for what you get.


BTW, Jim, are you the author of _Single Variable Calculus_? I picked it off
of my son's reference shelf today to look something up, noticed the author's
name, and though, "hmmm...."

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BoyntonStu wrote:

How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)

Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


There's a reason that poles usually telescope.

If I absolutely had to daisy-chain the poles,
I'd look at using Dinse welding cable connectors
to mechanically hold the lengths together.
They are nice, tight twist-lock connectors and
the price is entirely reasonable for what you get.



BTW, Jim, are you the author of _Single Variable Calculus_? I picked it off
of my son's reference shelf today to look something up, noticed the author's
name, and though, "hmmm...."


Nope. I only wish I were that good at math.
Got a couple patents and my name mentioned
in a couple books though...
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On Dec 14, 3:23 pm, BoyntonStu wrote:
How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)

Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?

Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.

Ideas??


Why not just buy one?
http://www.budgetlighting.com/store/...b_changer.html
Karl
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On Dec 14, 3:23 pm, BoyntonStu wrote:

How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Why not just buy one?http://www.budgetlighting.com/store/...t_bulb_changer...
Karl


$2.00 vs $20

In addition, extension poles are not designed to rotate in use.

This is for a product that I am thinking about selling..


It must be effective and also very inexpensive




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On Dec 14, 9:16 pm, _
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:


How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll
stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley.
Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that
on
the end.


Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.


I like the PVC suggestion.

Cross drill and stick a screw through 'em.

Richard


Not fast enough.

Slip on, twist without slipping, slip off.

No more than 1 second to slip poles together or to pull them apart.


Make em in a hex shape at the coupling so they don't rotate. Fix the
coupling on one pole.


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Make em in a hex shape at the coupling so they don't rotate. Fix the
coupling on one pole.


Tether 'em with a string of elastic through a hollow center. Congrats,
you've re-invented the modern tent pole. The original poster should
make a visit to his local sporting goods store and look at how the poles
on the dome-shaped tents work.

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Why not just buy one?http://www.budgetlighting.com/store/...t_bulb_changer...
Karl


$2.00 vs $20

In addition, extension poles are not designed to rotate in use.

This is for a product that I am thinking about selling..


So what's his cut of the profits when he gives you the key idea for
it, Stu?


It must be effective and also very inexpensive


Sir, yes sir! /salute

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BTW, Jim, are you the author of _Single Variable Calculus_? I picked it
off of my son's reference shelf today to look something up, noticed the
author's name, and though, "hmmm...."


Nope. I only wish I were that good at math.
Got a couple patents and my name mentioned
in a couple books though...


I don't suppose it would be diplomatic to ask what *kinds* of books? g

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Make em in a hex shape at the coupling so they don't rotate. Fix the
coupling on one pole.


Tether 'em with a string of elastic through a hollow center. Congrats,
you've re-invented the modern tent pole. The original poster should
make a visit to his local sporting goods store and look at how the poles
on the dome-shaped tents work.


Just let them get married and be done with it.


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BTW, Jim, are you the author of _Single Variable Calculus_? I picked it
off of my son's reference shelf today to look something up, noticed the
author's name, and though, "hmmm...."

Nope. I only wish I were that good at math.
Got a couple patents and my name mentioned
in a couple books though...


I don't suppose it would be diplomatic to ask what *kinds* of books? g


"Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema"
and a book on embedded controller design.
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BTW, Jim, are you the author of _Single Variable Calculus_? I picked it
off of my son's reference shelf today to look something up, noticed the
author's name, and though, "hmmm...."
Nope. I only wish I were that good at math.
Got a couple patents and my name mentioned
in a couple books though...


I don't suppose it would be diplomatic to ask what *kinds* of books? g


"Foundations of the Stereoscopic Cinema"
and a book on embedded controller design.


Now, there's an interesting combination. I'm glad I asked.

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, BoyntonStu wrote:
On Dec 14 wrote:
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:23:51 -0800 (PST), BoyntonStu wrote:
How to couple two poles to make a quick extension pole? (wood, metal,
or plastic)


Problem: Couple/join 2-3/4" dia 5' long poles to make a 10' extension
pole that will not twist slip but which may easily pull apart?


Fewest parts, easy and inexpensive to manufacture.


Ideas??


Plastic plumbing pipe. Shove the sections into couplings and they'll stay
together - good enough to hook a clothesline back over the pulley. Plus
you can easily glue/bolt/clamp something to a coupling and stick that on
the end.


Gotta twist off a hard to remove floodlight, etc.


Swage one pipe so they slide together, "Wishbone" style pin lock
like used on swimming pool vacuum poles.

But I use a standard twist-to-lock painters roller style pole to
change light bulbs all the time. If you have to put enough torque on
the pole that overrides the locking tension on the pole sections,
you've got bigger problems with either the lamps or the sockets.

First, you have to define the REAL problem, then you can solve it.

Cheap imported aluminum base lamps and cheap aluminum shell sockets
are always bad separately, but when they are combined and you add any
moisture at all and allow time for them to corrode to each other...

Buy the better brass or nickel plated brass based lamps, and brass
shell sockets. Then they'll come apart without a big fight.

-- Bruce --



I've been having great luck with a little tube of spark-plug-wire goop
from the autoparts store.

Dielectric grease, that's it.


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On Dec 17, 3:06 pm, wrote:
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I've been having great luck with a little tube of spark-plug-wire goop
from the autoparts store.
Dielectric grease, that's it.
Dave


Ford recommends it as a brake and caliper lube instead of the high-
temp grease they used to sell. Be careful about using it in an
electronics facility, though, because it can interfere with soldering.
Silicones like this are prohibited on subs because the vapor creates
abrasive SiC in the sparks of electric motor brushes.

Jim Wilkins


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