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Date:         Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:18:09 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: 88 Vanagon headlight socket problem
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At 02:29 PM 3/20/2009, Frank Condelli wrote: >Are there any 'list recommendations' of things that I might do to maximize >the contact there and thereby minimize the resistance and heat generated at >that junction?

Frank, take a look at <http://www.stabilant.com> including the application notes on weather applications and thermal runaway. Their stuff is wicked expensive, might be $50 for a little bottle, but it's extremely well vouched for, including by your army and NATO. They're in Richmond Hill ON. Neighbors, eh? -- more or less. The description of the working principle sounds like witch-doctor stuff -- if it were only the stereo magazines that liked it I'd say Not Bloody Likely! But when NATO starts using the stuff I begin to get impressed.

Disclosure: I have a small bottle of the 22A (thinned with isopropanol) and it hasn't injured anything I've used it on. Hard to say whether it's helped, difficult to prove a negative. But if it helps with those overloaded headlight contacts you should know in three or four years, right?

-- David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '89 Po' White Star "Scamp"


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