Pivot / Loctite / Oil Question

[AJR576]

So I adjusted my pivot so the blade is centered, it opens smoothly, and locks up tight with no bade play.

I also used a very small amount of blue loctite (and let it set for the recommended 24 hours) to keep it where I set it.

Now if I lightly oil around the pivot/washers, is the oil going to get into the threaded pivot screw and degrade/loosen the loctite?

 

[Thin-Slice]

Not from my experience. also if the tolerances of the pivot/screw are very good and you add blue loctite the oil might not be able to get in there

 

[Wowbagger]

So I adjusted my pivot so the blade is centered, it opens smoothly, and locks up tight with no bade play.

I also used a very small amount of blue loctite (and let it set for the recommended 24 hours) to keep it where I set it.

Now if I lightly oil around the pivot/washers, is the oil going to get into the threaded pivot screw and degrade/loosen the loctite?

As long as you cleaned the oil off the threads before applying the locktite and maybe even if you didn't you should be fine when you later add oil to the pivot.

Locktite swells in the absence of oxygen and then hardens. It's basically plastic then. Oil won't dissolve it.
and
the oil belongs between the blade sides and the washers or into the bearings what have you. Basically you are putting oil other than on the screw. Hardly takes any oil to lube the pivot.
For instance I washed my Para2 Blurple and it wasn't dropping so well after a few days of carry.
I put the lightest hint of a part of a drop of super light oil directly on the portion of the bronze washers that I could see and only there and she was dropping like crazy again. That little amount of oil would never migrate anywhere near the screw threads.

 

[AJR576]

Thanks for the responses. I did clean and degrease the screw parts before adding the loctite and reassembling.

I also very lightly greased (Slip EWL) the pivot. I'm planning to add a drop of oil around each teflon washer.