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Originally Posted by A RC Dude
wow, thanks for the info guys!
and yes i've let my lock-tite dry for about 24 hours every time. it is however a few years old but still can be hard to remove sometimes. i think i'll buy some red lock-tite when i go to town next time. but the set screw in the tranny that came out is pretty ground down on the bottom so i'm going to need a new one in order for it to grab well on the round shaft.
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What BG said was to grind some sort of locking point into the shaft itself. It is best to have some sort of dig point on the shaft for the set screw to tighten into. Then it will hold up better during operation.
Loctite is one of those chemical miracles of a sort. I attended a class for loctite a few years ago while working at Universal Studios Orlando, and what the company told us then was that their product actually hardenes up under pressure when you apply a tightening force to the hardware it is applied to. It does not dry because of the air around it. Of course it will harden up or cake up over a long period of time, but that is not the purpose of using it. You can even apply it and put the item right back into use, but they suggested that you let it cure for at least an hour before using the item. None of the lictite products is really permanent, but as noted one loctite product is stronger then the previous one as you climb the ladder. We used loctite on everything for putting the rollercoasters back together at "Islands of Adventure". I worked on the Dueling Dragons, The Incredible Hulk, and the Mummy coasters, and without loctite they would have come apart farely easy under the pressure of normal operation.