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I'm trying to remove old, dried-up LocTite from some scope mounting screws. I've tried acetone and rubbing alcohol, with no luck. Any ideas what will cut/desolve the dried-up LocTite? Thanks is advance, Bill. | ||
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heat them up with a torch or soldering iron and it will let go right now. VERITAS ODIUM PARIT | |||
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The best LocTite solvent is propane and a lighter.  However, running the screw in and out of a threaded hole will help. Or soak them in Acetone. _______________________________________________________________________________ This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend, it is my life. | |||
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Thanks, guys, but I didn't ask the question clearly. I've got the screws out; I'm trying to clean them off, and the threaded screw holes out, before I apply new LocTite to reinstall them. Sorry for the confusion. Bill. | |||
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I chase the screw holes with a tap. But you can run the screws in and out of the holes to remove what you can. Hit the screws with some acetone and use a "Q" tip and acetone to swab the hole. After that the new LocTite will work just fine. If you need it. _______________________________________________________________________________ This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend, it is my life. | |||
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Loctite melts at 400 F° Pipe cleaners also are good for cleaning out the holes. | |||
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Actually Loctite doesn't "melt" is decomposes at 400F Though some of the high strength bearing retaining compunds will hold on to 450-475. I'll second (or fourth or fifth) the recommendation for a propane torch. AD If I provoke you into thinking then I've done my good deed for the day! Those who manage to provoke themselves into other activities have only themselves to blame. *We Band of 45-70er's* 35 year Life Member of the NRA NRA Life Member since 1984 | |||
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Sounds about right! I just removed my LocTited on muzzle break. I thought the stuff was supposed to decompose at lower temps. I'll be machining off the next one! Regards 303Guy | |||
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While you bicker over the word melt Loctite makes a solvent for removal of the residue. It is composed mostly of nitromethane. Hoppes #9 used to contain nitromethane. I don;t know if it still does but it cleans my Loctite coated screws. | |||
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You won't want to be using a propane torch around Nitro-methane, that barreled action will set a new quarter mile world record! Hoppe's #9 use to contain Benzine. Of course that was back when the stuff smelled good! _______________________________________________________________________________ This is my rifle, there are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend, it is my life. | |||
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Torch and then a dental pick.. My best friends dad is a retired dentist and those things are good for lots of stuff!! Also, after the heat is applied blast with brake cleaner ---that gets most of it.. | |||
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Later formulations of Hoppes contained Trichloroethane (commonly called "TCE" or "Trike") but that too is gone from the formulation. Acetone is a "silver bullet" for cyanoacrylate ("super glue"), but loctite isn't cyanoacrylate. and nobody here is "bickering" and if you use that word again don't do so before posting a definition to PROVE you've read the definition. I was "quibbling" which is NOT the same thing  AD If I provoke you into thinking then I've done my good deed for the day! Those who manage to provoke themselves into other activities have only themselves to blame. *We Band of 45-70er's* 35 year Life Member of the NRA NRA Life Member since 1984 | |||
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Damn, now that's funny!  Thanks Allan!Rusty We Band of Brothers! DRSS, NRA & SCI Life Member "I am rejoiced at my fate. Do not be uneasy about me, for I am with my friends." ----- David Crockett in his last letter (to his children), January 9th, 1836 "I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son." ----- Jose Antonio Navarro, from Mexican Prison in 1841 "for I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Arbroath April 6, 1320-“. . .It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.” | |||
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