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Loctite 242 Nut and Bolt Locker (part #3370) is blue in color and is a medium strength locking compound. This allows fasteners to be disassembled with hand tools yet prevents loosening under normal circumstances`........

Loctite 271 Stud Lock (part #3371) is red in color and is a very high strength compound that `is great for problem fasteners that don`t seem to want to stay tight`. `Removal may be difficult and may require heating the fastener`.......

Loctite 290 Penetrating Thread Locker (part #3372) is green in color and is a very high strength, low viscosity, compound. It `can be used to lock previously assembled fasteners such as when locking down an adjustment` (their exact words).......

Loctite 609 Retaining Compound (part #3373) was developed especially for bonding cylindrical parts such as mounting bearings or bushings into housings as well as mounting pulleys onto shafts, to improve strength of press fit bearings etc.......

Locquic Cleaner and Primer (part #3376)is used to clean the surfaces and to speed the cure. Especially important on certain inactive surfaces such as stainless steel......

Additionally Loctite makes Pipe Sealant with Teflon (part#3374) and a Gasket Eliminator 515 (part #3375).

It is also available in STICK form for easier applications... HERE

Came across one of those trick things we all love a few weeks back. He`d used red locktite to keep the bolts from loosening and the stuff was really holding. It was in a place where a torch couldn`t be used due to proximity of electrical wiring etc. I had just picked up the cheater bar when another friend dropped by. Saw me with the cheater bar and asked what I was doing. Told him. He said his wife(!) had came through his shop while he was working to free up some locktited bolts and had told him of a super easy way to get the locktite bolts loose WITHOUT the use of heat! Just put a dab of fresh locktite on the bolt and wait about 10 minutes and it`ll loosen all the old set-up locktite! Tried it and the bolts felt like they`d never had any locktite on them! NEAT TIP.

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There's a seldom talked about, often ignored important ingredient used all over your motorcycle that usually gets under-appreciated until you see or hear a piece of your bike bouncing down the road behind you. Yes, it's another case of 'Road Jewelry'. Those pieces of your bike that end up on the side of the road because you, or your trusted mechanic, were a little insecure while bolting on some prized stuff to your machine. Hopefully that piece you saw fly off your bike didn't hit the guy behind you, or was an integral component you needed to get you home in one piece. I'm going to do my best to give you the low-down on how to make your motorcycle feel more secure. There's a simple magic ingredient called Loctite?, which began its life in the Trinity College basement laboratory of Dr. Vernon Krieble in Hartford, Connecticut, sometime way back half a century ago in 1953.

Back in '53 Dr. Vern developed a "cure inhibition system for a unique liquid bonding resin that hardened in the absence of air - an anaerobic sealant." It wasn't long before Vern took advantage of his brilliant daughter-in-law's sharp linguistic wit by taking her suggestion to call this anaerobic sealant "Loctite". By 1956 they released their patented basement concoction to the world with the promise of solving the age-old problem of loose nuts and bolts. You see, until this time, most folks came to accept that it was natural for stuff to fall off of machines, no matter how tight you torqued the nuts down, even with good ol' fashioned lock washers. Dr. Vern and his family solved a problem that was believed to be unsolvable. So why is stuff still falling off your bike? Read on. All this time you thought that White-Out was the end-
 
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