- Tue Mar 13, 2012 6:29 am
#31347
In general you have 2 other choices (Locktite makes a ton of specialty threadlockers for industry, but those are not commonly available), red and green. The green is for stuff you want to lock after the fact, or where there isnt much thread contact, like sheet metal screws. It stays on the surface and will be visible, so it's not much use on firearms. The other choice is the red. Red is way stronger then the blue, and should really only be used where you will never want to disassemble the parts ever again. In general, with properly applied red loctite you will need to heat the parts with a torch to get them apart again.
At a previous job I actually took a class sponsored by Loctite/Permatex (they used to be owned by the same company, they aren't now) and spent half a day (hey, I was getting paid AND got a free lunch!) learning about when and how to use all the different sealants and thread lockers.
One last tidbit: Loctite was invented right here in CT, though currently the company that owns it, Henkel is in NH (I have a friend who works there, I should hit him up for some freebies, heh).
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