battery terminals?

[pesty]

grease or no grease?

If grease any old grease or special grease?

I only ask cos today I noticed in Halfrauds a dielectric property grease specialy for battery terminals. I always used to put normal grease on the terminals to stop moisture. was this a bad thing?

[Mikey G]

I just give a little squirt of spray grease every so often, nothing special, and as far as i know thats all the garages do when you take your car in for a service
Cant see special grease is going to do a better job of repeling moisture!

Mike

[nel]

I've always used copaslip for battery terminals and it seems to do the trick.

[Pigeon]

"Dielectric" means "insulating". All grease is insulating, and all grease is water-repellent. Axle grease will do just as well. You can confirm this by working out the price per gram of axle grease and the Halfords funny stuff

[steve_D]

Petroleom jelly as used on babies bums is the stuff to use.
I understand it is conductive but am prepared to be shot down.

Steve

[nel]

steve_D said:

Petroleom jelly as used on babies bums is the stuff to use. I understand it is conductive but am prepared to be shot down. Steve

Would be very surprised if petroleum jelly is conductive but have no evidence to the contrary!

I understood that the rationale for using copaslip is that it DOES contain a good conductor, so once compressed into a thin layer when you nip up the terminals onto the battery posts it does not interfere with the passage of current.

Now it'll be my turn to get shot down I guess...

[TheExcession]

Always been a copper slip man meself.
I'm sure there's a BiB-Banana joke in there somewhere
best
Ex