Selectively Conductive Electrical Connection Enhancer

[Bonaventure]

http://www.stabilant.com/

Pure Stabilant is cut with 99% isopropyl alcohol to make a solution containing approximately 5% Stabilant, and called Stabilant 22A. 

Pure ethanol can also be substituted for 99% isopropyl   

The company claims that in circuit board and silicon chip mounting uses the introduction of Stabilant 22A into the socket can make the connection equivalent to as if it was soldered, for removable plug-in chips and/or CPU's.  Yet Stabilant doesn't harden, the actual substance may be similar to a petroleum distillate.  The alcohol serves only as a carrier for the product and the extreme purity level of either form of alcohol is required to avoid introducing unwanted impurities into the connection.

For automotive and power sports the usage would be for small voltage connections such as the lower voltage pigtails branching off the wiring harness to power assorted OBDII sensors, etc.   

Stabilant does not cross conduct inside the connection and cause shorts, it is selectively conductive.   Don't ask me how, but it is.  It is successfully used in computer circuitry and all sorts of electronics applications. 
 

[fotoguzzi]

I'll stick with Vaseline,thx

[chuck peterson]

Ha! From your title it sounds like it enhances an intermittent short...

[bmc5733946]

Stabil-ant is extremely expensive and used by military and commercial aircraft technicians to enhance all sorts of electrical/electronic connections. I learned of its use several years ago and introduced its use at work in connectors subjected to salt spray and basically underwater, packed in ice etc.,(snowplow trucks for the Michigan Department of Transportation), it works as advertized. My department decided not to use it because of the cost of the product and the time (seconds) it took to apply. I can tell you it takes very little to do the job and that is part of the problem, application methods for mechanics need to be really simple. We were wiping it on with q-tips which isn't very efficient. Stuff does work. It is available at NAPA stores and is a Canadian product as I recall.

Brian

[n3303j]

Quote from "Windows Magazine":

Normally, Stabilant is an insulator. But in the presence of a large electric-field-gradient, it becomes an excellent conductor. An electric field gradient is the "slope" of an electric field. It indicates to what degree voltage change over distance (voltage difference between two surfaces, divided by the distance between surfaces). Within your computer, distance between a pin and a socket is so small that the gradient very large (on the order of thousands of volts per inch), causing the liquid to become a conductor. But the distance between adjacent contacts is great enough to keep the gradient low (on the order of tens volts per inch)-well below the level Stabilant needs to make t transition from insulator to conductor.