Be careful in the use of silicone containing compounds. Two very important things to keep in mind are that if you use silicone anywhere near something you will paint it can cause tremendous contamination problems meaning "fish eyes". In the shop I had we used a spray on the TIG welders to keep the spatter from sticking inside the shields. That spray contaminated the paint room over 200 feet away. We had to convert to an non-silicone anti-spatter spray to finally eliminate the problem. The other thing to watch out for is some silicone compounds can contaminate and destroy the O2 sensor on the car. There have been cases of silicone containing compounds getting into the air intake and wiping out the O2 sensor. Using the wrong (not sensor safe) silicone sealer is also known to kill O2 sensors. Silicone also has a property known as "creep". It tends to migrate. It can get into switches and insulate the contacts. A few years back the telephone companies used silicone to lubricate the mechanical switches in their phone exchanges. The silicone crept into the contacts and caused erratic operation, it took hours and hours to mechanically clean out the silicone. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, Les Huckins <jhuckins@xxxx> wrote: > In the electronics world there are some interesting compounds, among > these there is a very special silicone grease. Actually this grease is > offered as a heat-sink compound for mounting transistors but it's also > the very best lubricant of it's type I've yet encountered. By General > Cement, GC number is 10-8101 (formerly 8101S) available at electronics