Sorry I opened my big fat mouth again. And no again, JimH; I cannot reduce the length of this post; I just spent more than a week reading up on these and others at Nye's voluminous website, and could have spent at least another month...do your own research if you want to make 3 sentence posts telling people what to buy.
Lumens addicts always want their supplies "yesterday". Oh well, I'm slow; guess nobody wants to do a GB on $100/oz ultra high-end contact grease (heck we could even get a custom run of our own mix, for enough $$$). Darned, I wanted the super high-end stuff, not just plain 'ol regularly super-expensive priced SF grease /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif. What I was thinking was to get a $500 order on the high-end stuff in a single larger container, then manually scoop out into small plastic screw top containers of 1/2oz-2oz each (those like the ones you can put lip moisturizing cream in). The larger containers cost
much less than smaller tubes, and you really don't need 400g of the lubes, like big Al has (he must lube up his entire collection on a regular basis /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif )
What big Al uses (size15's) :
Silicone grease recommendation
Download the pdf files on each of these from the Nye website, 779ZC is supposed to have additives for aluminum. I have yet to contact Nye about their various high-end greases (it's the holidays you know), so I have no information yet. The newer fluorinated greases are much more expensive.
779ZC http://www.nyelubricants.com/datasheets.php?offset=793
759G http://www.nyelubricants.com/datasheets.php?offset=713
E-mail Nye's small order distributor
TAI Lubricants, if you want the SureFire greases in the USA---
"There are price breaks for larger quantities. For this particular grease, at those quantities, you could purchase from Nye directly. They have a $500 minimum order and 50 to 100 would surely meet that minimum.
I sell two different greases for SureFire flashlight owners. The 759G and the 779ZC. These are priced at $28.95 per 50 gram tube. If your flashlight is a SureFire, then is the material you need.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.
Happy Holidays,
Tom Madden, President
TAI Lubricants
PO Box 1579
Hockessin, DE 19707
USA
(302) 326-0200
(302) 326-0400 fax
[email protected]"
I sent TAI a lists of wants, high-temperatures, high-currents along electrical contact paths of both aluminum, nickel, brass, tin/lead, gold-plated, plastic/metal compatibility; in mod'd flashlight with 35+ watt bulbs that generate lots of heat. Nye's tech support responded that Uniflor 8511 would meet those requirements...only problem is price. From TAI, 8511 is:
25 gram tube: $47.95
50 gram tube: $74.95
100 gram tube: 135.95
400 gram jar: $289.95
Order 34Kg tub of this stuff from Nye directly for $$$$, break it down into 25gram portions and you should be able to bring the price down to less than $5 per 25g.
Read up on the development history, of automotive connector grease like 8511, by downloading the pdf
http://www.nyelubricants.com/literature.htm
http://www.thomastracking.com/dlcount.php?id=nyelubricants&url=http://www.nyelubricants.com/pdf/LW-Lubricant_of_the_year.pdf