chriscross1966
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- Swindon
Hi folks... bit of an odd one, but I've got issues with titanium screws in titanium components undoing themselves despite using decent (Loctite 222) threadlock. Googling got me dreadful signal to noise ratio, and a lot of ignorant woo as well as well thought out engineering opinions that were diametrically opposed to each other.... oh and a lot of racist crap about Far-Eastern fasteners, but I digress...
ANyway, I need to solve this as one of the fasteners affected is a pivot bolt on the rear triangle of a Brompton.... I've got an after-market Ti kit in there, mostly because the standard steel replacements is a dealer-fitment only part from Brompton.... If push comes to shove I can make pivots at home (I have a lathe, that pivot is a 3/8 bit of tool steel with a threaded hole in each end), but the Ti kits are cheap enough that I'd rather spend my time on other things....
ANyway, I need to solve this as one of the fasteners affected is a pivot bolt on the rear triangle of a Brompton.... I've got an after-market Ti kit in there, mostly because the standard steel replacements is a dealer-fitment only part from Brompton.... If push comes to shove I can make pivots at home (I have a lathe, that pivot is a 3/8 bit of tool steel with a threaded hole in each end), but the Ti kits are cheap enough that I'd rather spend my time on other things....