Danno
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I call that green poof. I have encountered way too much in Ohio. It is also a semiconductor which has some comical diagnosis. Horse trailers were fun. The salt and horse urine corroded eveythind. Oxide galore! Electrics and chassis..everthing!When i was 19 and came back from living in New Zealand the first time i was low on funds we bought a house at the time here and every penny went on mortgage and just surviving really, i bought a Russian ural 650 for £30, it needed a battery a pair of tyres and some fragile wiring sorting out. I got it running for £50 and on the road for a year for £60. It had a Braided copper earth lead that was very prone to oxidization it turned a pale insipid green verdigris and the braids of copper ( that's even if it was copper) just kind of dissolved and i ended up blowing every bulb on the bike one night. Put a earth lead off a ford car on it and never had another issue. Strange stuff the Russians used at times.
I always installed my power wires to the power distrabution box on vehicles at work because if you looked at the battery terminals... they magically crumbled.
Somebody forgot to dip that ural ground cable in whale fat or fish oil. Ha...electrolytes are everywhere! The stainless earth cables oxide also in the north. The old timers would keep cars with leaky valve covers because of the corrosion. Almost sounds as some loosened the valve cover bolts on the first day. My friend had a high mileage camry with a massive oil leak. When he finally fixed the leak years later and washed the car 30 times..he had the nicest camry around. This why leaky harleys never die. The other bikes corrode away.