Well done Bob,
You have the right approach!
Keep up the light!
Cheers,
Hans
'71 BGT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Howard [SMTP:mgbob@juno.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 14:41
> To: Lawrie@britcars.com
> Cc: mgbob@juno.com; fpixley@kingston.net; mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Connector Cleaning
>
> Lawrie,
> Ooops, you caught me writing an incomplete thought.
> I don't even try to clean the things. I keep a supply of the female
> parts (singles, doubles) and just pitch out the old connectors whenever
> there is any suspicion that they might not be perfect. That means that
> every time I work on a connection the old connector gets pitched and
> replaced.
> At one time I did try to clean the things, slipping off the rubber
> cover and all that. Seemed to me that most of them were cracked, or
> pitted, or corroded, or just generally seeking a way to introduce high
> resistance into the circuit. My theory is that there are so many
> dissimilar metals put together in close proximity that the brass coupling
> is sacrificed to the more noble metals in the area. We have copper
> wires, lead alloy solder, brass tips, cad plating, etc, etc, and with
> enough time there is bound to be self-created metal breakdown.
> So, I clean the male tips, put on a dab of No-Ox, use a new connector,
> and go on to the next challenge. Saturday's challenge was that one of
> the breaker plate screws in the distributor was found to be stripped. A
> suggestion was to use JB Weld in the hole. Another suggestion was to
> grind the plate thinner and to pick up threads further down in the hole.
> Do you have any ideas for this?
> Bob
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:44:25 -0800 "Lawrie Alexander"
> <Lawrie@britcars.com> writes:
> >Bob...........
> >
> >What's your magic trick for scrunching a Scotch-brite pad small enough
> >to go
> >inside the female half of the bullet connector?
> >
> >Lawrie
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Bob Howard <mgbob@juno.com>
> >To: fpixley@kingston.net <fpixley@kingston.net>
> >Cc: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
> >Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 10:25 AM
> >Subject: Re: Connector Cleaning
> >
> >
> >>Fred,
> >> The best thing I have discovered is ScotchBrite pads. They are a
> >>plastic version of steel wool, so they clean off the corrosion well
> >but
> >>do not leave any metal shards. Available in at least two different
> >>coarsness grades, they cost about 80 cents, U.S.
> >>Bob
> >>
> >>On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 07:29:36 -0500 "Fred Pixley"
> ><fpixley@kingston.net>
> >>writes:
> >>>I'm wondering if there is a better way to clean the typical bullet
> >>>connector. Sandpaper tends to wear through the outer coating and
> >>>might
> >>>encourage rusting. Wire brushes are OK if the corrosion isn't too
> >>>extensive.
> >>>
> >>>Fred Pixley
> >>>Napanee, Ontario
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
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