Yup,Red locktite on anything you never want to remove and blue on anything you do. Locktite is a glue and just like any other adhesive it needs a clean surface to bond to. Always degrease your fasteners with solvent before applying threadlocker and you will never have a problem with it backing out. It's good practice to flush bolts and bolt holes(this includes nuts)with carb or brake cleaner before applying the threadlocker. I've found that putting a drop in blind holes works better than applying it to the bolt. It pushes the threadlocker down into the hole as you thread the bolt in. Sometimes you can't get to the hole so in those cases you would apply it to the bolt then run the bolt in part way and back it back out. When you back it out it creates a vacuum in the hole that will draw the threadlocker in. Being a custom bike builder has taught me how to get the most out of threadlockers,those big stroker motors will rattle everything off without it. I don't even use lock washers anymore,threadlocker makes them redundant.
About 30 years ago I took on the task of flipping blades on a 14 foot Wysong shear.
Cuz I was young and stupid.
I got plus or minus .002 between fasteners and alowed angle runout of 1 degree between fasteners.
They had red locktited the fasteners and used lockwashers on fasteners that didnt need lockwashers and had made up some torque value right out of pure lunacy.
So I gave them the my " dont want to do it" quote.
I wasnt experianced enough to understand that If you nuke bomb somebody with a quote and they still want you to do it that means they are lying to you.
That means you should never ever do that job.
This pack of Jabronis torched the blades too get the screws to back out and wanted the same deal like nothing had ever happened.
I have never seen an entire piece of machinery heat warped but these boys had all the gas
I dont know if you have ever seen a pair of "Pinking Shears"
Pinking shears are the scissors your grandmother might have used to cut offset patterns in quilting.
These guys created the worlds largest set of pinking shears.
Its a bit hard to describe but ill try.
A sheet metal shear is one of the most dangerious pieces of machinery ever invented. Everything about operating a shear is ****** up.
You can hear the difference.
When it is working properly it makes a stamp noise when the hold down feet hit it and then a slick kinda shear cut noise and then the snap through noise.
When it is not right It makes a crumple noise and the hydraulics just keep pushing and then you need to run because every overloaded chunk of shrapnell is coming right back at you at nut level.
That to us old guys is just nothing
Just nothing but a beer or two.
We all ****** up and missed that part where we were supposed to welcome younger people into our trades and help them out and teach them our knowledge and make them a part of the comraderie of the shop.
You can not in any way think that you are a master of your craft if you arent thinking about how to pass that on when you retire.
You can think that you are the best ever...
But that is foolish.
That is the sure sign of a closed mind.
I dont know if anyone who makes this forum for us nows how to do what I know how to do.
I have no idea.
But I do know that I do not know how to do what they do.
That makes them a master of their craft.
And I also believe that people who are deeply involved with trying to moderate the internet world are probably pretty srtessed out.
Just like I believe that younger people are just barely trying to figure it out.
This is all very suddenly new.
to everbody.
I have in a few posts mentioned that my wife is an antiques broker and that I am a compulsive buyer of antiques.
Several years ago I bought an unmailed never postmarked german postcard that was sent out to everyone in germany when kaiser wilhelm died.
They were prepaid and had to be mailed back to support der furher and signed by Hermann Hess.
Pretty much the most evil ******* thing that I own.
It is very very rare and it will never be for sale.
I will keep it for now just for the historical freak of it but If a museam doesnt want it when I die its ******* burnt.
Its ******* sick and twisted
I also own the letters and pictures and all of the documents from an Italian Army doctor who was stationed at camp lewis, which became fort lewis and then JBLM.
He documented what happened to the men at camp lewis when the 1918 flu hit.
And we just bought what might be a pre columbian perasca culture headband for 20 bucks that we may have to return to Peru if I try to sell it.
I am a history nut. I usually read 3 or 4 books at the same time just because they sometimes provide clues that you normally wouldnt link together.
And that happens quite often.
Sometimes my friends with their walmart decor try to chuck some shade at me .
I am a treasure hunter who doesnt need a ship.
Mom will be 80 in two weeks.
Amongst all of all of her gifts will be flowers in a 2 thousand year old vase.
Adventure is all around you every day.
You dont need a treasure ship you dont need a big x marks the spot.
When I moved back to Seattle I had nothing. My ex ripped me for 280,000 thousand dollars
280k I had my tools, my guns and a friggen frying pan and one chair.
The girl I met who is now my wife of twenty years got ripped even worse.
We didnt have **** all of any thing.
But, she has what the call "the eye"
And I have looked at a whole lot of silver and gold over the years because it was my job.
Over the first five years or so we bought about 50 percent unsellable junk.
Mainly because we didnt understand that condition is everything.
No chips no scratch allowed.
I was always into the buying part of it but I thought that selling my crap at an antique show would be boring.
And it really is
She did shows for years before I did one.
1,500 bucks cash in ten minutes from other dealers before the show even opened.
And, I may sling some poo now and again.
But that is only because I am a well trained former car salesman..
Did I mentioned that those teacups match yer eyes?
