Stabilant 22 is a proprietary conductive polymer used to clean, lubricate, and
enhance electrical contacts/connectors. Supposedly better than similar products like
DeoxIT, though both have their diehard adherents.
The S22 website is full of embarassingly pretentious and meaningless technobabble washed in a good dose of snake oil. But it's been around for decades and is used religiously by the aerospace and communications industries, military and defense organizations, engineers galore, and even NASA - so it's gotta have some useful merit.
It coats electrical contacts with a very thin, slightly transparent film, a little slippery to the touch, somewhat hard (yet not brittle), and nearly impossible to remove without a lot of abrasive/subtractive effort. I suspect the electrical
enhancement comes from this stuff filling microscopic voids between electrical contacts, and that it's a much better conductor than air/vacuum - somewhat analogous to how a TIM fills the voids and enhances heat transfer on a thermal interface.
Anyhow, I've been using it for years on odds and ends. It doesn't do a lot for shiny new parts. But it can miraculously revive crusty old dead sticks of RAM, can restore dirty pins and points to perfect signal integrity, and can make a world of difference on crackly audio/radio/power connectors. I routinely paint it onto things like audio plugs and USB ports, it does no harm, and if nothing else it helps ensure the gold plating wears more gently over many years of plugging things in and out.
I'm considering application to my CPU, RAM, and PCIe connectors. Not expecting dramatic results, but maybe it might make the tiniest difference at OC thresholds? Eliminate variables caused by imperfect component mounting/seating/install? Allow me to gain a puny headroom advantage, 0.003V or +4MHz or whatever?
Has anyone already done this? And, if so, with what results? Is it entirely NOT recommended for any reason? Have any of you LN2 fanatics tried this? Maybe NASA likes this stuff because it hardens their systems against failure at extreme temperatures?
If there be no naysayers, then I'll guinea-pig it and post my before-and-after results/screenshots.
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