Loctite stick advice please

I've used it to lock what I remember to be 8-32 setscrews back when I was an auto mechanic. I secured loose blower fans to the motor shafts. I was using the red 271 threadlocker, the liquid form of 268, and I never had a come-back after using it.

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I don't know how you're going to get clean threads with anything that you apply, stick or liquid. When you screw the set screw home, it's going to rub off on the female threads. They do make screws with nylon locking spots that small, might not fit well with your bid, though. Have some on my current laptop. Or bid two set screws, one on top of the other. Have done that one, too.

Stan

Thanks Larry, that's just what I was looking for. I'm sure that any compound that doesn't make it into the part will be easier to remove than a liquid that will wick along the threads. Eric

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I've used the red stuff, but on larger screws. It's pretty squishy, and it's very hard to put so little on the threads that none of it squeezes out as you thread things together.

Doug White

I think this is a situation where you go back to the customer and ask if the adhesive-free part of the stud has to extend exactly to the surface or could they allow, lets say, a 0.030" region near the surface that may have some adhesive.

If they say no, ask if there could be a small shallow counterbore or countersink around the threaded hole that would let some adhesive ooze out without extending above the surface.

The exposed threads pretty much need to be loctite free because another part screws on and off. There is going to be a thread or so with loctite on it and that will be OK. But not two threads. And the female threads can't have excess loctite either. That's why I don't want something that wicks. It looks like the stick stuff will work. Eric