For non critical uses I switched to HarborFreight brand . Way cheaper. But again non critical parts it may be the same but I would not want to find out the hard way.
I was reluctant to use locktite until I understood how much torque is needed to break the nut free. One thing that really helped was to take a few nuts from the bolt box and do a comparative, practical trial. Put it on half of a handful of bolts and nuts, each with a no locktite control, wait 24 hours, and then try to spin each nut off. As you say, shake the container before application. I found that my standard blue locktite isn't as strong as I feared, which gave me a lot more confidence when using it. It also highlighted how even a locktited nut isn't necessarily completely secure. One other thing is to avoid putting locktite on a bolt that goes into a helicoil, timesert, or rivnut. You don't want the insert to back out or spin when you remove the bolt later.
When using a helicoil type insert and the fastener requires thread locker, put red on the insert, let it cure, then use blue on the fastener. If you really want to go all out, you can use epoxy on the insert and thread in a bolt coated in grease while it cures. This allows maximum adhesion of the insert without gumming up the threads or gluing the bolt in.
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Good video! Would have been nice if you would have touched on how clean the surfaces needs to be. I know a lot of people just put it right over the old bolt without cleaning it or anything.
And sometimes you use loctite when the customer insists on using the wrong fastener. Ex. TH-400 extention housing with a grade 8 fastener. Fastener dosen't stretch properly to distort threads (without stripping) so 242 is used to keep it from backing out. Using a grade 5 would solve the problem but customer wants grade 8 (ya ship it out with grade 5 and it comes back for service after a race with grade 8🤦♂️🤷♂️)
