The set screw on the door handle for our storm door keeps coming loose, have to keep tightening it.
the immediate thought is Loctite, but something about using Loctite on a door handle set screw bothers me.
any thoughts?
bobl Volo, non valeo
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Use the 'weakest' one. Should be fine.
The red Lok-Tite is more permanent. Use the blue type.
use Loctite Blue or rubber cement... contact cement is good too...
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Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I would try silicone type adhesive sealant .
might be less painful when you have to remove it
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Edited 12/11/2006 11:41 am by Sancho
If you use Loctite, use 222ms, it is for small screws under 1/4" and it is removable.
The reason it keeps coming loose is probably because of dissimilar materials. For example, the knob is aluminum and the set screw is steel. When exposed to to temperature changes, they expand and contract at different rates causing it to come loose.
See if you can find a set screw made of the same material as the knob.
-Don
Try hairspray. Works just as well.
Good Luck
Ben
thanks everyonehave some blue loctite, guess I'll try that.
bobl Volo, non valeo
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If your patient, and happen to have some teflon tape, its worked for me in a pinch.
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try hair jell, Paul Mitchell sells some good stuff
:>)
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he said he wanted a clean temp fix...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
finger nail polish..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I won't ask why you carry nail polish around with you, if you don't ask why I carry lip stick.
Oh how they pound, raising the sound, o'er hill and dale, telling their tale, Gaily they ring while people sing songs of good cheer, Christmas is here....
you guys need to take the rest of that discussion off line.
Who says we haven't?
Care to join?
LOL!
Oh how they pound, raising the sound, o'er hill and dale, telling their tale, Gaily they ring while people sing songs of good cheer, Christmas is here....
I don't swing that way, but more power to you.
shouldn't you be out working today anyway? or are you playing dress up?
Edited 12/12/2006 2:16 pm ET by CAGIV
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Light load with the Holidays.....so I'm screwin' around here for a bit.
Oh how they pound, raising the sound, o'er hill and dale, telling their tale, Gaily they ring while people sing songs of good cheer, Christmas is here....
what you dont fix doors?
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elcellent chip repair for my photography equipment..
what it is really good for is to paint eyes on fishing lures...
somebody said something about hair spray.. great document protector...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Or a dab of clear nail-polish, or pipe-dope, or clear modeling cement/paint, or artist's fix, or even loctite clones
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