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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