So Loctite 242 on everything if you want to get it out again and 640 if you never want to see it again?
So Loctite 242 on everything if you want to get it out again and 640 if you never want to see it again?
Do you guys safety wire critical components normally/ever?
I don't think I've ever seen it done on your projects.
The0retical wrote: Do you guys safety wire critical components normally/ever? I don't think I've ever seen it done on your projects.
Yes, we often use safety wire on brakes.
I've just been looking for a reason to repost this.
Good show tonight, it'll help with my upcoming restocking efforts. I'll have to check out bolt depot.
That was fun to watch. Thanks for the time and effort.
The0retical wrote: Do you guys safety wire critical components normally/ever? I don't think I've ever seen it done on your projects.
Sorry we didn't get to this on air. Ran up against the clock. You may have even seen the can of safety wire on the bench to talk about :)
Long story short, safety wire is probably the most positive way of stopping any fastener from backing out. But, it's highly complicated. It requires drilled fasteners, additional hard points to attach the wire to, and needs to be completely disassembled then reconstructed each time the fastener is removed. I keep safety wire around, but I don't use it for much—at least not how it's designed to be used. If we did a lot of project helicopters, yeah, all the time on every bolt.
In reply to JG Pasterjak:
Just curious. It was part of my life for so long that if I'm not sure of loctite the head gets drilled and wire goes in on the cars. Not sure what standard practice is on race cars though.
I see it on the hats of brakes. Just curious if there's some other components that are commonly wired on real deal race cars. They usually kick me out of the garage at the Rolex when I started disassembling things.
It's great for other stuff too like unclogging refrigerator and AC drains, hooks for getting a fastener out of the dark recesses between the block and headers, and way fancier than drift stitches.
Torque stripe is also really common in aviation but I hardly ever see it on cars unless it's mine.
Lots of the stuff in our parrot aviaries is safety wired together because it's the only thing those little bastards can't disassemble/chew through. Although they did figure out if they fatigued it enough it would break.
But, yeah, on race cars you'll see stuff like caliper bolts, rotor-to-hat bolts, steering couplers, linkage bits attached to the transmission, stuff like that will get safety wired. Stuff that doesn't need to come apart in a hurry, and if it does fail it usually means something else went wrong.
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