Dec 12, 2013 Sign UpLogin  April 2011 Archive for In the Shop
RSS By: Dan Anderson, Farm Journal   In The Shop: Heat Defeats
Thread-Locking Compound  Apr 27, 2011   Everybody calls it
"Loctite," but that's technically a specific brand of thread-
locking compound. Whatever you call it, it can be tricky
removing bolts cemented in place with those products. The first
trick is knowing they're cemented before you try to remove them.
The second trick is to remove them.  There's really no way to
know in advance if a bolt is cemented in place with thread-lock.
I've learned to pay attention to a couple things that hint
thread-lock has been used. If I start to remove a bolt or nut
and notice a dry white powder coming out of the threads, there's
a good chance thread-lock has been used. And if I get a whiff of
a sweetish odor from that powder, that's a dead give-away that
the nut or bolt was thread-locked. From then on I can use
discretion in removing other bolts that might also be thread-
locked.  Once I determine a nut