On Friday, Dec 5, 2003, at 13:06 US/Pacific, Jinx wrote:

> I already have heat shrink tubing and silicone
> to seal the cable entry points and solder joints but of course
> these can't be used on the actual contacts.

How often are the plugged and unplugged?  There are "weatherproof"
permanent connectors that are filled with a silicone OIL gel (rather
than anything that hardens like glue/caulk), and something like
that might be useful in a connector as well, if it's not disconnected
very often.  Beware, though.  I discovered the hard way that my
easily-found thick silicone oil (copier "fuser oil") while nice
and thick, was not at all thixotropic (ie I had some in a syringe,
and after neglecting it for sometime in a opening-down position,
ALL the oil had managed to flow out.  (water wouldn't have done
that - I was pretty surprised!))

BillW

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