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Anyone familiar with corrosion-inhibiting compounds?

Anyone familiar with corrosion-inhibiting compounds?

Anyone familiar with corrosion-inhibiting compounds?

(OP)
Anyone have any experience with MIL-L-87177 corrosion inhibiting compound for electrical interconnects? What about urea-thickened PFPE?  Just wondering if there are any experts on corrosion inhibition for electrical interconnects(namely, fretting and galvanic).  

RE: Anyone familiar with corrosion-inhibiting compounds?

I don't do mil-spec stuff very often, but we use products like "no-ox" for aluminum all the time. We don't use anything for copper or tinplated copper.

JTK

RE: Anyone familiar with corrosion-inhibiting compounds?

There is also a product called Penetrox for aluminum connections.

RE: Anyone familiar with corrosion-inhibiting compounds?

(OP)
I've had good results with Burndy's Penetrox on lug-type connections, however, the problems I'm dealing with now are with pin & socket type connectors (i.e. circular, EPX, etc.) I need a product that will slow the effects of fretting, oxidative and/or galvanic corrosion in tin/gold interfaces. Obviously, the compound will only provide us an interim fix, but that is what we need at the moment. After digging around a bit, I've come across the two products that I've mentioned in my original post.

RE: Anyone familiar with corrosion-inhibiting compounds?

Clearly you know about the unreliability of tin-gold contact interfaces.  You might call Nye Lube about their contact lubricants.

http://www.nyelubricants.com/prods.htm

RE: Anyone familiar with corrosion-inhibiting compounds?

We have been evaluating the MIL-L-87177 CPC that the Air Force now recommends for all it's avionics/electrical connectors and the Navy has used for external mechanicals.  The military test programs had amazing results.  We are just getting test results back, but are  seeing great results.  Called Super-Corr B, from Lektrotech.  Web address is www.lektrotech.com.

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