Re: Loc-Tite Talley Rings

22 March 2004, 06:36

Wow, three days and not one opinion.

Because I don't envision removal of this particular scope from these rings, except in the event of failure and return to the factory, I'm leaning toward the extra insurance of Loc-titing the screws into the rings and leave the attachment screw to the base as the only "free" attachment.

Reed

22 March 2004, 07:46

shayneC

I have Talleys on 6 rifles and I don't believe they need any loc-tite. When I clean my rifle I usually will check the screws, but I have never had one shoot loose.
Shayne

22 March 2004, 10:57

Red Neck64

Quote:

I have Talleys on 6 rifles and I don't believe they need any loc-tite. When I clean my rifle I usually will check the screws, but I have never had one shoot loose.
Shayne

What caliber are you shooting?

22 March 2004, 12:33

JohnT

Reed I've got Talleys on a .375 RUM Model 70 s/s. The recoil is pretty stiff on these so I have used the Blue lock tite (243 I think) on it. But I have only applied to the base screws & to the base itself.

I have not used loctitie in my other rifles up to .338 & seems OK. My friend has it on .375 H&H & has not had any problems but probably fired no more that 50 shots so far.

I personally have not put it on the actual ring screws as I didn't want any trouble in removing a scope. Good foresight on my part in this case cause the scope a Leupold 1.75 - 6 failed after 15 rounds.

When I removed the scope mount bases to put on the Loctite I found that it seems the front bases & ring take more of the recoil load than the rear. The receiver under the front base was marked but the rears not. This is my reasoning only - don't know if it is right scientifically. Could also be that the front bases don't match the receiver as well as the rears. Anyway I have put a good amount of the blue loctite under the front base & just a little on each base screw.

Looked up on Loctite web site & the blue 243 is oil resistant whilst the red 222 does not state that its oil resistant.

Regards
JohnT

22 March 2004, 14:26

Reed

JohnT,

If you have too much slop in that front base then you may need to consider something other than Loc-tite as I believe it's very effective as long as the tolerances are under about 2/1000 inches. Although I guess it wouldn't hurt anything either.

At one point I thought this wasn't even worth discussing but I read recently where repetitive Loc-tite can "gum" up threads if they're removed repetitively.

Like I said, it's probably overkill.

Thanks much,

Reed