Gardner Bender Ox-Gard Anti-Oxidant Compound Review - Better Than Dielectric Grease

Gotta get me some of that 👍👍

Not seen one of your vids for ages good to catch up

Interesting. Never used that grease. Butter it up! I never to that.

Your preparation, props, presentation and production are excellent as always Steve. Those four flat trailer connectors corrode fast and badly. I'll have to try this stuff on my utility trailer, on the connector but also on the mixed bag of aluminum and copper wiring all over it

I’ll be honest with you Steve, if I ever use dielectric grease in my life I will be the guy going crazy with it lathering it on without a care in the world 😂. Thanks Buddy!

Whatever you do don't squirt that on a multi pin connector.... or there goes all your resistance values out the window

I have never seen the Dielectric grease in a cheesewiz tube like that before. All I have ever seen is the stuff in a tube like the GB stuff. I usually use what ever I can Strategically Transfer Equipment to Alternative Locations from the plants I work at. I will have to see about getting some of this. I forgot that you were a watt wrangler. Do you know if they sell a bucket of ohm's?

Never disappointing Steve. I need some of that on my truck battery connection.

How's she goin'? This looks like good stuff Steve. Being conductive can be a plus for sure. The main thing is to keep the air off the conductors or terminals and this sure looks like it will do that job!! Thanks a lot for sharing and take care!!!

Looks like a good product. When have in electoral field différant products and I still have somewhat of an inventory in my garage but this one looks to work great and if it work great I say it’s a buy for sure. Thank for showing it to us......CHEERS

You got me sold Steve. As soon as I run out of my two tubes of dielectric greases which for me is a 20 year supply I'm getting some of that ox stuff. haha Good info!

I use permatec electric grease, never seen that stuff , the grease works great. Interesting steve.

Maybe the price problem is a Canada thing. Never been a problem for me in "the lower 48."
Use dielectric grease on light bulb bases. Don't use Ox-Gard there unless careful not to get it between the tip and ring contacts.
Don't use Ox-Gard where you want clean - the graphite and metal particles in it make a mess. I prefer dielectric grease on my flashlights.

To test the conductivity requires pressure because the particles...

well Steve as an HD certified mechanic im on the fence about using Anti-Oxidant Compound on a light bulb base (seen too many shorts from this over the years) Being conductive can be a plus for sure, for battery terminals or places where your positives and grounds are separate all good but where your positive and negative are close together I would use dielectric in those areas so there's a propose for dielectric as well play safe don't be sorry sure it will work for a well but the bigger chance you may end with a short because of it, (and its hard to find when it happens) just my opinion

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Thanks for the heads up about this product Steve. I ordered myself a tube for a coming project.

Being conductive does seem to be the biggest benefit (well, that and the price) 😁👍

I was looking at a tube of that stuff last week and was thinking about giving it a try... Im definitely going to buy some now. It will work wonders here in Nova Scotia with the salt air that gets into everything. I can see it really being useful for a lot of what I do. I have to put a new trailer connector on my vehicle soon, that stuff should help it last longer. All of the harness connections on my tractors. I'm building a list of uses in my head now 😉

Seams like a nice product! And we know how our winter salty roads has effects on our automotive electrical!
Thanks for showing Steve ✌

Wouldn't there be a benefit of being non-conductive for situations like a trailer connector where the pins/plugs are in close proximity and you don't want the connection pins/plugs to be bridged?

Works on starter grounds and pos+ connections? Looking for a solution for my 1986 kawasaki X2 jetski i ride saltwater

Other than my concern about Ox-gard flowing in between switch contacts, I suspect Ox-gard a better choice. I once found an old tube of dielectric grease that had some solidified portions inside of it. Ever since then I figured Ox-gard was better option.

I have no idea how you can claim that it's conductive, and in the same vid say you're not worried about it shorting across in multi prong plugs.
It's either conductive or it's not, and I think you proved that it's not. One way of properly testing it though, ( as I see you've claimed in another comment that it might be conductive at higher voltage), would be to use a Megohmmeter (or insulation tester) and test it at 250, 500 or 1000 volts.

Im going to be adding 4awg copper line in same line set as a aluminum line set on meter base and this seems to be the best solution.

Is this better than dielectric grease for battery terminals?