Vaseline is petroleum-based and will attack and swell most instrument gasketing. A much better choice would be silicone grease, available from industrial supply houses. --allan On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 20:44:14 -0700, Jack Fu wrote: >I have a Magellan 315 GPS. It is waterproof except for the >battery compartment. > >I have a Standard HX350S VHF radio. It is waterproof and the >rechargeable pack is waterproof, but the alkaline battery case >is not. > >Someone in a newsgroup some months ago suggested filling the >battery compartment or the alkaline battery case with vaseline. >This would prevent water from getting in. > >Has anyone tried doing anything like this? Has it worked? > >Jack Fu >47 37 39 N, 122 07 57 W *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Sep 01 2000 - 09:12:09 PDT
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