I don’t think brass nuts have the required strength or corrosion resistance, and good luck finding M8 silicon bronze nuts or whatever metric size the Force dishes take.
I have been using the Permatex nickel anti-seize, I am confident this will prevent seizing, but it is messy. Not really a problem for parts you pre-assemble on the ground. For nuts you tighten to mount the dish to the tower, I would squirt a little dab on the threads at the last minute. I decided not to try the anti-seize tape that claims to be non-messy, but you are welcome to be the guinea pig and report back: http://catalog.antiseize.com/viewitems/anti-seize-compounds2/poly-temp-reg----anti-seize-tapes_ From: Jaime Solorza Sent: Tuesday, September 08, 2015 4:00 PM To: Animal Farm Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Anti-seize or Brass Nuts Can you replace parts with hot dipped galvanized ones instead? BTW what is Force EPMP ? On Sep 8, 2015 2:54 PM, "Nate Burke" <[email protected]> wrote: We've had to start doing our first couple EPMP takedowns (Force dishes), and it seems that the stainless nuts have seized on. Should we be hitting all installs with Anti-Seize, or would we be better off just replacing the hardware with brass/bronze nuts ala LMG? I haven't used Anti-Seize before, is it a sticky mess to work with? Would the installers actually use it, or just screw over the guy that gets sent to de-install? I'm also thinking about how to easy it would be to re-deploy the Force Dishes. Nate
