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Originally Posted by Maine Sail
What are the opinions you disagree with?
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I'm still forming an opinion about mixing dielectric and crimping, and getting opposite views from my betters. Your detailed reply and images are clarifying issues nicely for me.
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Originally Posted by floatsome
On another forum here, I asked about the best way to use dielectric grease. The reply I get to this question, consistently, is that a solid metal-metal connection (as in crimping or a tight bolt/thread fit) excludes the grease so that the grease does not increase resistance in the joint significantly.
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Originally Posted by Maine Sail
This is good information. A proper crimped connection does NOT include a dielectric grease..
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I did not word myself clearly: I am being told that if I add dielectric grease to a joint of any kind, then during crimping or bolting the grease will be pushed out of the joint and onto the surrounding surfaces, leaving so little grease behind that any resistance it creates would be negligible. I presume your argument is that when proper crimp is done that squishes the wires into a solid mass in the crimp when dielectric grease is used, then it contaminates the joint sufficiently to increase resistance in that joint? I have no opinion on this, just trying to understand the best way to use dielectric grease. Thanks for working this through in such detail.