Liquid Paraffin for drysuit zipper

[Capt. Bas]

T-9’s unique formulation of solvent carrier and paraffin wax coating was engineered to penetrate crevices deeply, displace moisture, dissolve minor corrosion, and leave a clean, waxy coating with lasting durability—without using Teflon, silicone, fluorocarbons, MEK, or acetone.

Quote of the T-9 webpage

Never thought about using T-9 I use it to lubricate the chain of my race bike and was expecting a silicone component in it.
My drysuit supplier will "kill" me when using any silicone based lubricants as it will impregnate in the rubber/laminte and no glue will stick to it of a sea or zipper has to be replaced.

Parrafin oil sounds not that bad either, Ikea sells bottels of Skydd in Europa. A mineral oil to be used as protecion for chopping boards in the kitchen. Food safe and all.
The only problem I don't like oily liquids near the rubber/latex parts of my suit.

Beeswax I've used but its to solid for my liking. scraping the teeth but not entering the zipper.

Bas

 

[mmerriman]

Some disambiguation of the term "paraffin" here: Paraffin - Wikipedia

In American usage, "paraffin" usually refers to wax, like candles are made of. I have also seen it used to refer to what we call kerosene and figured that was British usage. The medicinal paraffin is a new one to me. Who knew I could learn chemistry from SB!

heres another interesting factoid - In British English, a billion used to be equivalent to a million million (i.e. 1,000,000,000,000), while in American English it has always equated to a thousand million (i.e. 1,000,000,000).