chim
Elite Member
Used blue Loctite on some gun parts. Red one time to fasten a revolver barrel. Anything on the tractor or implements is either lock washers, Nylok or other self-locking nut.
One of the old timers told me to park my tractor and implements outside from time to time so they would rust together as you described; I thought he was pulling my leg.Red on the bolts which hold the loader mounts to the frame. They were backing out once every fifty to one-hundred hours. Not no more.
Hopefully I’ll never need to take the mounts off for any purpose. I sure can‘t think of any reason I would need to. I browsed through the Service Manual before I did it, and couldn’t see anything, which would require their removal. If I had seen something, I would have use blue.
My Dad used to use dark KARO syrup, if he absolutely wanted things to stay forever. Said that it caused ferrous metals to rust together. I never took anything apart that he did it to. So, I can’t say for certain one way or the other. But, nothing he did it to ever came back apart.
You need to heat it up to get red loose. Which assumes you can heat things without damage. But with a little heat it pops loose.Has anybody ever used red and wished they did not? A mechanic told me I might as well weld a bolt on if I were going to use red; I have never used it.
The Amazon sellers (offshore) are a lot less expensive that the real McCoy (Henkel) but I question the chemical makeup of their stuff. All I use is Henkel and it is rather expensive. I regularly use both blue and red versions depending on the application. Last 250 ml bottle of blue I purchased was over 100 bucks at MSC.Soooo...... I checked my LockTite bottle. It says Henkel on it. That's supposedly the "good stuff". Better be - pretty expensive as I remember.