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January 20, 2023
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TXGunNut said
There are literally dozens of variations of Loctite. The grade we want is one of the green ones, it resists loosening from vibration on threads and can be removed without heat or solvent. Actually silicone would probably work fine. I wasn’t kidding when I said I used a shim of normal Scotch tape on the bottom of a pistol sight. If one thickness isn’t enough a second will probably do. This is an EDC gun and has fired hundreds of rounds every year for several years. In fact, the tritium sights are fading so the simple little piece of tape has outlasted the sights.
Mike
Well, learn something every day. If green is what we need, where does blue fall along the use spectrum?
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
April 15, 2005
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Zebulon said
TXGunNut said
There are literally dozens of variations of Loctite. The grade we want is one of the green ones, it resists loosening from vibration on threads and can be removed without heat or solvent. Actually silicone would probably work fine. I wasn’t kidding when I said I used a shim of normal Scotch tape on the bottom of a pistol sight. If one thickness isn’t enough a second will probably do. This is an EDC gun and has fired hundreds of rounds every year for several years. In fact, the tritium sights are fading so the simple little piece of tape has outlasted the sights.
Mike
Well, learn something every day. If green is what we need, where does blue fall along the use spectrum?
Bill,
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The blue (or purple) would be the best choice for the application you are asking about.
Bert
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January 20, 2023
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Bert, Thanks much for the chart. I’ve put it on Drive in my Dope Bag folder, next to my hole drilling and tapping chart, etc.
I gave up guesstimates long ago, although I still occasionally employ the FPHC [female public hair color] index taught me by a salty old tool & die maker years ago.
I’ll continue to rely on the blue variant. The only time it ever failed me was when I didn’t adequately degrease a little 6-48 machine screw.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
March 31, 2009
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Interesting. The average human hair is about .004″. But I haven’t factored in the color or the location of the body where the hair was obtained. 
January 20, 2023
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Chuck said
Interesting. The average human hair is about .004″. But I haven’t factored in the color or the location of the body where the hair was obtained.
In descending order of diameter, note the following:
Brunette
Blond
Redhead
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
September 19, 2014
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When I was a carpenter, my employer and I referred to frog hairs for fineness! Think they may be smaller yet than a red head. Unless the red head was also a frog?! Got this off the tracks, didn’t we!? Tim
November 1, 2013
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When I was a carpenter, my employer and I referred to frog hairs for fineness!tim tomlinson said
They aren’t much finer, I don’t think, than the hair of my Irish Setter, a single strand of which is almost invisible, & unmeasurable, & because of this, highly prone to matting, unless combed almost daily.
January 20, 2023
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tim tomlinson said
When I was a carpenter, my employer and I referred to frog hairs for fineness! Think they may be smaller yet than a red head. Unless the red head was also a frog?! Got this off the tracks, didn’t we!? Tim
Chuck, to each his own but concur we’ve left the path for the weeds.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 20, 2023
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Zebulon said
tim tomlinson said
When I was a carpenter, my employer and I referred to frog hairs for fineness! Think they may be smaller yet than a red head. Unless the red head was also a frog?! Got this off the tracks, didn’t we!? Tim
Tim, to each his own but concur we’ve left the path for the weeds.
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
January 20, 2023
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Got the M62 back and here are some pix. I asked if they shimmed the loose dovetail blank and was told they staked it, which I take to mean peened. I’ve got a Redfield Sourdough up front and the tang aperture with low light disk gives a great sight picture. Taken down with the tang sight folded, it slips into a Boyt two pocket case like it was made for it. 
- Bill
WACA # 65205; life member, NRA; member, TGCA; member, TSRA; amateur preservationist
"I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both, and I believe they both get paid in the end, but the fools first." -- David Balfour, narrator and protagonist of the novel, Kidnapped, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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