Preventing Busbar Oxidation

Getting ready to do some maintenance on my Gen2, including hybrid battery cells. Reading through different threads, I see a lot of people opting for nickel plated busbars instead of cleaning up and reusing the original copper busbars. I'd rather keep with copper to minimize resistance, but I understand the concerns about copper oxidizing.

I also understand that there is an argument that the nickel coated copper busbars' resistance would likely be minimal, since the busbar is still copper. Nonetheless, with so many "cheap" nickel coated busbars out there I feel like it would probably be better to just stick with cleaning up the original copper busbars with oxidation mitigation at connection points.

Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has experience using Penetrox or Noalox. Tesla uses Penetrox A-13. Any opinions?

 

Thanks Tombukt2. I wasn't initially concerned about the bare metal on the busbars as much as the contact points, but it does seem like a good idea to take extra steps to prevent oxidation from getting a foothold.