Electro/Mechanical & Terminals:
Contralube770 is good for all terminals - spade, fork, bullet etc. Also battery connections, external antennae connections; pretty much everything electro/mechanical and all metal on metal surfaces.
Contralube770 will weatherproof your connection and help stop rust, vibration corrosion and the general build up of oxides. You can load up the electrical and signal connectors with contralube and it will not harm/degrade the current/voltage or signal that is going through the contacts - superb!
Contralube has a snazzy ultra violet (UV) ingredient in it so that it turns blue when exposed to direct sunlight. Why would we do this? Well some engineer use contralube in very small amounts and in hard to reach places - with the UV ingredient you can use a UV ‘black light’ to inspect which contacts have been protected by contralube.
When air gets to copper that green slime builds up on the surface. Well this slime will eventually affect the conductivity of the contact and the connection may fail. Prevention is better than cure right - well contralube has a special ‘copper deactivator’ that stops the evil green slime building up on the surface.
Here’s another example. You know when your torch or remote control stops working if it hasn’t been used for some time. You knock it on a hard surface or give it a shake, then it works! Well the reason for this is oxides building up on the contact faces of the battery connection. Contralube will stop this with just a small dab on the contact areas. This kind of problem occurs in many different machines and devices and is the cause of many a gremlin in your equipment - sound familiar?
Noble metals (eg gold or silver) are sometimes used as a plating on a terminal. A plating can be microscopically porous and can easily be scratched away, even during the initial mating of a connector. Over time nasty oxides of the metal underneath (eg copper) the noble metal can cause the connection to fail either by managing to ooze through the pores or take advantage of the noble metal being scratched during mating.
