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"