A small drop of Loctite® 222, which is purple in color, would be appropriate for these small screws in this application. However, I don’t consider most cars to be a high vibration environment. If one were to regularly drive on cobblestone or washboard surfaces, then a thread locker might be warranted, but that would be more of a low frequency vibration, very unlike a high frequency vibration, such as might be generated by a high RPM 4 cylinder motorcycle engine.
Even though the screws may be of a stainless steel material, there is still a slight potential for galvanic corrosion. I’d think that use of a heavy bodied anti-seize compound on these screws would be all the “thread locker” most OM’s would need. 73 de Dennis KD7CAC Scottsdale, AZ > On Jun 18, 2015, at 5:59 AM, David Robertson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > One of the members of this e=mail forum made the following statment: > > > "If the radio is going to be used in a high vibration environment, like a > car, sealing the screws with Loctite might be a good idea." > > Although he is correct, you must be very careful on which type of Locktite > you use. Locktite comes in colors and you want to stay away from the red > color Locktite as it is perment. Using it will make it very difficult, if > not impossible to remove. > > 73 > Dave KD1na ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
