I have some 20 year old silver loaded paint/ silver conductive paint
Electrolube SCP003 ,kept in a 35mm film pot, in fridge. It cannot be called
paint now, but not totally dried out, more like paste. I mixed a little with
the resin part of some also quite ancient but good epoxy , bulk 1kg purchase
about 10 years ago, also kept in fridge (red cap = resin ? any standard ?)
Left the mixture overnight and it was same pastiness, ie no/little cross
reaction.
Prepared a pair of 1.65mm wide , flat , brass pins, by cleaning with
methylated spirits only and drying off, deliberately no abraiding. One pin ,
wrapped 2 separated loops of 0.02mm insulated wire around as a precise
separator.
2 hours ago wixed with the hardener and placed between the spaced crossed
pins, held with a wooden clothes peg , holding force about 0.5 Kg.
I just tried measuring resistance between pins. Did not think , in advance,
about soldering fine wire to the pins for ohms testing. Connecting 2 croc
leads to the crossed pins, still with clothes peg, resistance varied between
3 and 35 ohm , holding in fingers. Highly sensitive to slight forces in
semicured state.
Will let it cure until tomorrow and retest conductance and also peel/sheer
strength of the epoxy. To be continued
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