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The more you know about Loctite® anaerobic adhesives and sealants, the better your productivity and cost savings will be. We have an extensive library of material demonstrating how anaerobic adhesives are more effective and more reliable than traditional methods:

  • Mechanical fasteners such as lock washers, star washers, Nylock nuts, and split-ring washers.
  • Traditional cork and pre-cut gaskets
  • PTFE tape and other thread sealants

Becoming better informed is just a click away. Investigate the science behind our success, and more than likely you’ll want to share in it.

 
Loctite Product Training

Educating the Masses
Loctite’s industrial distributors are using an innovative strategy to teach engineers and MRO professionals the value of anaerobic adhesives in the manufacturing process.

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Threadlocking

Anaerobic Adhesives Guarantee the Reliability of Threaded Fasteners
As Featured in the January 2007 issue of Reliable Plant magazine

Threaded fasteners set and hold tolerances on assemblies ranging from light duty equipment to heavy machinery. Loosening is one of the major causes of industrial equipment failure, and results in millions of dollars of unscheduled downtime costs each year.

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Analyzing Thread Treatment Options
As featured in Reliable Plant magazine and MRO Today magazine

Proactively treating threaded pipes and fastener with thread treatment products is critical to efficient and cost effective manufacturing. A major cause of industrial equipment failure, threaded fastener loosening results in millions of dollars of unscheduled downtime costs each year. Similarly, more than a billion gallons of industrial fluids are wasted through leakage each year.

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Keeping Threaded Fasteners in Their Place
The threaded fastener continues to annoy maintenance crews with its tendency to come undone, but solutions do exist

According to a booklet published by the Industrial Fasteners Institute, called “The Heritage of Mechanical Fasteners,” man’s invention of nails, rivets, screws and other basic fasteners helped pave the road from the Stone Age to the Space Age. If that is true, then fastener loosing has provided quite a few of the speed bumps and pot holes on that road.

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The Ties that Bind:
Ten points about liquid threadlockers

Bolts, studs, set screws, and other threaded fasteners are the “ties that bind” industrial equipment together. Considering that fastener loosening is a leading cause of catastrophic failure in machinery, maintaining proper clamping forces is an important element in fastener effectiveness.

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Thread Sealing

The Path to a Leak-Free Hydraulic System
As featured in Maintenance Technology magazine

Leaks in hydraulic systems are expensive and potentially hazardous. But like any leak, they can be mended or prevented. Unlike traditional pipe leaks, however, they can lead to system contamination and shutdown if they are not handled with precision – and the right materials.

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Thread Sealing 101:
Consider your options when choosing a method of sealing pipe joints

Liquid and gas leaks are serious business. Governments legislate against them, technical societies create standards to avoid them, manufacturers expend mighty efforts to prevent them and maintenance departments work continuously to correct them. More than a billion gallons of industrial fluids are wasted through leakage every year.

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Retaining

Adhesives Retain with Confidence:
Anaerobic adhesives greatly improve the reliability of cylindrical assembles

Most machinery contains cylindrical parts that must be shaft mounted or “retained.” Faced with a typical shaft-hub assembly problem, engineers can choose among several mounting methods, all of which have advantages and disadvantages.

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