Anyone Use Dielectric Grease on Loco to Tender plugs?

Those connections do look fragile .  I put a small piece of black electrical tape on them to beef them up. JohnA

Follow-up:  The dielectric grease works really well.

John

I use NO OX ID A special conducting grease.  I bought it to put on the rails to improve operation and I now can run 027 trains much slower than before and will not have to clean tracks ever again.

I am looking for places to use it and I only used a few daps for the track.  All electrical connections are a great use, especially for plugs.  It is used on all battery connections too, especially those alkaline batteries that like to leak.  I doubt that it will eliminate the damage from the caustic but I feel it will help conduction after I have scrapped the contacts corrosion with a knife and washed it with water.. 

Charlie

@Choo Choo Charlie posted:

I use NO OX ID A special conducting grease.  I bought it to put on the rails to improve operation and I now can run 027 trains much slower than before and will not have to clean tracks ever again.

I am looking for places to use it and I only used a few daps for the track.  All electrical connections are a great use, especially for plugs.  It is used on all battery connections too.

Charlie

I have purchaed some of the NO OX ID Charlie but I'm not totally sure about using it.

I've seen where it is supposed to be conductive and then where it isn't conductive but just metal protecting but not keeping current from passing between metal surfaces.                               If it is electrically conductive I would think it would be important to make sure that it didn't creep into areas that it wasn't intended to go.

If it is an excellent  metal protectorant but doesn't necessarily conduct electricity I would like to open up some areas on our Toro battery operated snow blower to apply it on wire connectors and switches.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

I have purchaed some of the NO OX ID Charlie but I'm not totally sure about using it.

I've seen where it is supposed to be conductive and then where it isn't conductive but just metal protecting but not keeping current from passing between metal surfaces.                               If it is electrically conductive I would think it would be important to make sure that it didn't creep into areas that it wasn't intended to go.

If it is an excellent  metal protectorant but doesn't necessarily conduct electricity I would like to open up some areas on our Toro battery operated snow blower to apply it on wire connectors and switches.

I wouldn't use a conductive grease on a multi-pin connector.  You could possible short them out.

Dielectric grease is a silicone (non-conductive) grease that is used to keep water and other foreign matter out of a connection.  That is why it is used in the automotive industry inside spark plug boots, etc.  It is not used in sufficient enough quantity to prevent conductivity so it works.  On the tender connector I applied it lightly to the plastic parts avoiding the four contacts.

John

On train track usage, a small amount of NO OX is lightly rubbed on with a finger, engines are run to treat the wheels and then NO OX is left on for 24 hours.  Then it is wiped off gently with a clean Tee shirt.

For plugs and connections can be lightly applied and excess is wiped off so none can bridge the contacts.

I have also put NO OX on my "2 trains on 1 track" relay contacts to eliminated the sparking and reduce contact wear.

Charlie

Charlie,

I am sure a light coat wouldn't cause a short.

John

@Craftech posted:

I wouldn't use a conductive grease on a multi-pin connector.  You could possible short them out.

Dielectric grease is a silicone (non-conductive) grease that is used to keep water and other foreign matter out of a connection.  That is why it is used in the automotive industry inside spark plug boots, etc.  It is not used in sufficient enough quantity to prevent conductivity so it works.  On the tender connector I applied it lightly to the plastic parts avoiding the four contacts.

John

Thanks John.     Do you know if it is electrically conductive ?

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Thanks John.     Do you know if it is electrically conductive ?

It is not.

John

@Craftech posted:

It is not.

John

Thank you .

Great information on NO OX & Dielectric Grease !!!

Thanks to all posters !!!

For any of you with Lionel’s Star Trek Train Set, have you tried greasing the Set with Dilithium Grease ???

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