On Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:31:14 pm Mark Wendt did opine:
> On 07/21/2010 11:56 AM, Andy Pugh wrote:
> > Given a 12mm / 1/2" thick aluminium / aluminum disc / disk of 80mm /
> > pi" diameter with a thread on the entire cylindrical circumference,
> > how best to lock the thread in place in a way that can be easily
> > reversed and which will not damage the threads in such as way as to
> > inhibit dismantlement?
> >
> > Ideas I have include a sort-of tangential saw cut through a
> > part-threaded (with a taper / first tap) hole with a grub screw /
> > setscrew in it (winding the screw into the unthreaded part pushes the
> > slit open, locking the thread), A saw-cut in the plane of the disc /
> > disk with a screw to locally squeeze or stretch the thread pitch to
> > lock it, and a variant of the first idea where a wedge of the disc is
> > cut out after the hole is part-threaded (possibly located with
> > half-and-half roll pins).
> >
> > Any other ideas, or approaches that anyone has seen?
>
> Loctite?
>
> Mark
I thought of that Mark, but most of that stuff takes 425+F to soften it for
later dis-assembly. Can the rest of the stuff tolerate about 475F for long
enough to take it apart, Andy?
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