28 Mar
2015
28 Mar
'15
2:11 a.m.
On 03/27/2015 05:45 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
Could it be one of those thick-bodied sealing
lacquers, such as used to fix
trimmer controls in place, and so on? I've seen them in deep green, red and
a sort of amber color, but not blue.
I'm sure many of us are familiar with the material - it holds fasteners &
control shafts in place very well, but 'shatters' and falls away fairly
cleanly, once you give the treated part a good twist.
Glyptal is also used in those applications, but that material is typically
opaque and a burnt-orange color. It's also a lot tougher.
Lacquer based thread lockers/fillers used to be very common. Old-timers
would use nail polish (cellulose nitrate-based). I've used plain old
red Duco lacquer, but that's pretty much unobtainium nowadays.
Loctite 8060 Pro-Lock Tight seems to be a modern-age equivalent.
--Chuck