[Healeys] Screw terminals - keeping them connected?

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Thu May 13 20:47:21 MDT 2010


All -

On several of my cars I have screw terminals.  I notice that over time, they
don't seem to keep connection as well as the Lucar/bullet terminals on my
BJ8.

I was wondering if any of you have a trick to keeping the connections live,
hopefully forever, once they've been screwed down?

I am considering the following:

   1. Use copper anti-seize lubricant between screw and wire?
   2. solder/don't solder (i.e. tinning) copper wire tips?
   3. use dielectric/lithium grease between screw and wire?
   4. use nothing and splay out the wire ends?
   5. stop being such a Nancy-boy and just screw down the terminals every
   six months?

Any ideas welcome,

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'59 Jag Mk IX
'64 BJ8


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