Postby Cobber » 26 Jul 2008 02:53
<font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="2">People always use too much loctite.
Even pros, late last year one of the blokes (The forman, he should have known better)used way too much loctite and the wrong grade too.
I had him helping me with the project I was doing, he had assembled some very expensive high speed bearings and laybrinth seals into the sheave blocks of a wire drawing machine. The exess loctite ouzed in to the bearings and laybrinth seals resulting in the machine siezing up during the commisioning production tests. It took 6 weeks to sort out as the whole machine had to be pulled apart bearing and seals flown out fron Italy and we had to turn up a new shaft and some other parts for the machine in the lathe. I shudder to think what it all cost in total. ( We hid a lot of the costs in the general maintenece budget so as not to scare the bean counters too much!)
I hope this gives you some insight into the dangers of using too much Loctite! That is not to say that Loctite is bad, It's an extreemly good product.
I don't use the liquid type loctite any more they have a solid type out now it comes in small lipsticks. Like a lipstick all you do is take off the cap twist the knob at the base and the solid product comes out of the tube, you just rub it lightly on the area yod need it. No mess, no bottle of loctite leaking in your tool box, no loctite running into places it shouldn't, no spills or drips. Brilliant! It comes in about 9 differnt grades so you should be able to get the right match for the job! </font id="size2"></font id="Comic Sans MS">
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