Spyderco Loctite

joeyza

joeyza

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I bought some loctite from home dept, loctite blue 242. I used this on my spyderco tenacious, first time I've used loctite. Does anyone know if this the same type of loctite that spyderco;s come with from the factory or is the blue 242 at least a decent loctite?
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May or may not be. Loctite is Loctite, follow the instructions on the packaging for best results.
 
Blue loctite is more than enough for a knife but make sure once you apply you dont touch it or open it for 24hours it needs to fully cure before use just set the screws where you want them then put it away. Most companies that put loctite in the pivot are using blue or purple (purple being weaker) never use red its far to strong for any knife screws.
 
If you completely degrease the screws loctite usually cures enough to use the knife within an hour or so, full cure will be much slower, especially since we're dealing with stainless hardware, loctite doesn't set as fast in contact with stainless, so a full cure could take a few days. The degreasing is absolutely essential though, they need to be completely free of oil for loctite to be effective.
 
Especially never use red on aluminum... it'll mess up the threads pretty good. I speak from experience.
 
IIRC blue loctite is the type they send out with replacement clips.
 
I recently put some blue loctite to my millie as some screws were loose and i was somewhat shocked to find red/orange thread locking compound in it...
However it didnt seem to hold the threads that hard as some of them came loose and the rest just required a tiny bit of torque, less than my blue loctite.


When used on aluminum, the sheer force required to break down the compound may shear the threads.
 
The problem with aluminum is the very fine threads our fasteners use, combined with very small diameters, it can cause thread stripping or fastener breakage on removal.

Threethreethree said:
I recently put some blue loctite to my millie as some screws were loose and i was somewhat shocked to find red/orange thread locking compound in it...
However it didnt seem to hold the threads that hard as some of them came loose and the rest just required a tiny bit of torque, less than my blue loctite.
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There are some other threadlocking compounds that are red in color but aren't like loctite/permatex permanent. One of them is Vibra-Tite VC3 which I've been intending to try out for a while but haven't gotten around to, similar in color to red loctite when cured.
 
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