Red or blue loctite

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Toonfan
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Red or blue loctite

#1 Post by Toonfan » Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:45 pm

Mounting a Pedestal grill on my pontoon boat. I plan on removing the grill and base when trailering. I can put the entire base and grill wrapped in a moving pad in the bed of my truck. My question is….. when I loctite the threads on the grill to the top of the pedestal mount should I be safe and use red loctite? I do not see a reason to remove it at the top of the base.
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Re: Red or blue loctite

#2 Post by bansil » Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:02 pm

Use blue, especially with small bolts and SS ones (303 or 304) are even softer than 18-8 series (they technically are all 300 series)

Is it a bolt and nut you can get to easy? If so use red if on hand and then just shear bolts with 2 wrenches when you need to remove it. The amount of heat needed to defeat red lock tite is like 500+ degrees that will ruin grill

But honestly just use blue.

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Re: Red or blue loctite

#3 Post by Toonfan » Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:32 pm

Thanks…makes sense

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Re: Red or blue loctite

#4 Post by HandymanHerb » Thu Jul 29, 2021 5:27 pm

Blue will do
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Re: Red or blue loctite

#5 Post by Rick McC. » Fri Jul 30, 2021 2:18 pm

bansil wrote:
Thu Jul 29, 2021 4:02 pm
Use blue, especially with small bolts and SS ones (303 or 304) are even softer than 18-8 series (they technically are all 300 series)

Is it a bolt and nut you can get to easy? If so use red if on hand and then just shear bolts with 2 wrenches when you need to remove it. The amount of heat needed to defeat red lock tite is like 500+ degrees that will ruin grill

But honestly just use blue.

Post pics when mounted
Heat does affect LocTite. That’s how I remove the red put on by gun manufacturers when I do gun work, as they like to use it on rear sight mounting screws. I also prefer blue, and don’t use red LocTite.

As far as grill temps go; I routinely sear steaks on mine with the temp over 600 degrees.
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Re: Red or blue loctite

#6 Post by Toonfan » Fri Jul 30, 2021 4:31 pm

Thanks so much. Blue it is

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