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    From The Real Bev@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 8 12:19:41 2020
    Back in the 70s either before Loctite or when it was too expensive to
    use. Some sort of industrial/building product. You put a blob on the
    nuts after they were tightened. It kept them from loosening, or at
    least showed strain marks when they did loosen. Came in a tube. I'm
    drawing a blank on what it was actually called and who made it.

    HELP!

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  • From john@21:1/5 to The Real Bev on Mon Nov 9 08:38:57 2020
    On 11/8/2020 3:19 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
    Back in the 70s either before Loctite or when it was too expensive to
    use.� Some sort of industrial/building product.� You put a blob on the
    nuts after they were tightened.� It kept them from loosening, or at
    least showed strain marks when they did loosen. Came in a tube.� I'm
    drawing a blank on what it was actually called and who made it.

    HELP!


    pre cote 30
    or 3m scotch grip

    thread lockers were a little bit wild back then some were just like
    thick paint, others rubber like coating and gave you strange torque issues

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  • From The Real Bev@21:1/5 to john on Mon Nov 9 09:29:04 2020
    On 11/09/2020 05:38 AM, john wrote:
    On 11/8/2020 3:19 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
    Back in the 70s either before Loctite or when it was too expensive to
    use. Some sort of industrial/building product. You put a blob on the
    nuts after they were tightened. It kept them from loosening, or at
    least showed strain marks when they did loosen. Came in a tube. I'm
    drawing a blank on what it was actually called and who made it.

    HELP!


    pre cote 30
    or 3m scotch grip

    thread lockers were a little bit wild back then some were just like
    thick paint, others rubber like coating and gave you strange torque issues

    Somebody in The Other Place remembered that it was 3M Weatherstripping Adhesive. Yes. It claims to be flexible now (it certainly wasn't then;
    not exactly grout-hard, but certainly not 'flexible') and costs ~$15
    for a 5-ounce tube.

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  • From Volker Bartheld@21:1/5 to Futility Man on Tue Nov 10 12:48:40 2020
    I would use Loctite 7400 ("Security Coating"), dedicated sealing wax
    (rather some viscous acrylic paint) or plain nail varnish. Neither of them keeps screw connections from loosening (it's more an anti tamper
    protection or indicates if something has come loose) and I guess the
    "yellow stuff" did a pretty bad job there as well. Threadlocker needs to
    go on the threads for a reason.

    Volker

    On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:19:26 -0500, Futility Man wrote:
    3-M weatherstripping sealer. I used it on critical bolts on air cooled VW engines. It wasn't perfect but it was about the best we had back then.
    On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 12:19:41 -0800, The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote:
    Back in the 70s either before Loctite or when it was too expensive to
    use. Some sort of industrial/building product. You put a blob on the
    nuts after they were tightened. It kept them from loosening, or at
    least showed strain marks when they did loosen.

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  • From Futility Man@21:1/5 to The Real Bev on Tue Nov 10 06:19:26 2020
    3-M weatherstripping sealer. I used it on critical bolts on air cooled VW engines. It wasn't perfect but it was about the best we had back then.

    On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 12:19:41 -0800, The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote:

    Back in the 70s either before Loctite or when it was too expensive to
    use. Some sort of industrial/building product. You put a blob on the
    nuts after they were tightened. It kept them from loosening, or at
    least showed strain marks when they did loosen. Came in a tube. I'm
    drawing a blank on what it was actually called and who made it.

    HELP!
    --
    Futility Man

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  • From The Real Bev@21:1/5 to Volker Bartheld on Tue Nov 10 10:10:58 2020
    On 11/10/2020 03:48 AM, Volker Bartheld wrote:
    I would use Loctite 7400 ("Security Coating"), dedicated sealing wax
    (rather some viscous acrylic paint) or plain nail varnish. Neither of them keeps screw connections from loosening (it's more an anti tamper
    protection or indicates if something has come loose) and I guess the
    "yellow stuff" did a pretty bad job there as well. Threadlocker needs to
    go on the threads for a reason.

    Nobody tampered back in Olden Tymes. We were all honest and helpful to
    one another. While that sounds kind of silly, I think it was pretty
    much true. I never met McQueen, but we did meet John McCown (?) and
    watched him climb hills with his dog clinging to the carpet on the tank.
    He told us about Bean Canyon, which was WAYYY better than Littlerock,
    where we were riding at the time.

    But I digress...

    It worked and was cheap and I probably have the rest of the doubtless
    hard tube SOMEWHERE in our motorcycle stuff unless it was in the box
    that the goddam possum used as a nest...

    On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:19:26 -0500, Futility Man wrote:
    3-M weatherstripping sealer. I used it on critical bolts on air cooled VW >> engines. It wasn't perfect but it was about the best we had back then.
    On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 12:19:41 -0800, The Real Bev <[email protected]> wrote:
    Back in the 70s either before Loctite or when it was too expensive to >>>use. Some sort of industrial/building product. You put a blob on the >>>nuts after they were tightened. It kept them from loosening, or at
    least showed strain marks when they did loosen.

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    Cheers, Bev
    Judges are our only protection against a legal system that can
    afford lots more prosecution than we can afford defense.

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