Public Service Announcement.
Pay no mind to the screeching. We're actually enjoying ourselves at the fanciest hotel in history. Not only a water slide, but they also offer continental breakfast in front of the television. This is why you must use Never Seas on stainless bolts.
The high nickel bolts Gall up on the threads before they are properly torqued, never seized. As a compound of 11 herbs and spices, it's not actually a lubricant. it's got silica sand in there in order to prevent the threads from galling. And the remedial action is for the guy who messed up to go and cut those off with a hacksaw.
That's a mistake you only make once.
10x worse if you use a drill or impact
Someone mixed the stainless steel bolts with the carbon ones at work and now no one cares
If your application allows for it, using two different grades/alloys of stainless for the bolt and nut can mitigate this issue as well. Other than that, I like C5-A from Loctite, personally.
I like the LOCTITE silver anti-seize, makes me feel fancy
Is this at the Ramada in Revelstoke?? stayed there on a ski trip this winter and instantly recognized the water slide, haha
Yes
Loosey goosey bolts like that allow the structure to have a little flex so they can bend and sway in the wind like the reed instead of blowing over like the mighty oak.
They could use some bushings maybe . Lol
Beg not bed.
shouldnt use stainless steel bolts anyway – no need to have extended maintenance on things like this poor design
Silica sand? In Never Seize? Never heard that before. The powdered metals (ie nickle or copper) and even teflon in a grease like binder acting as a dry film lubricant (eventually the grease washes or is burned away) between mechanically touching surfaces .. is how NS works
Seeing structural bolts not fully made up is scarry as F. I don't think folks understand how bolted connection actually work. To just leave it like that is gross incompetence. The person that walked away saying, "job done", needs a few smacks around the head! It galled up is no excuse. I shake my head.
What's w the washer too? If there's 1 washer, usually goes on nut side. If it's a lock washer, it has to go on nut side.
Great wolf Lodge?🤯🛫
My friend was a commissioning engineer on nuclear reactors. An entire reactor core had to be dismantled and forensically cleaned because the wrong type of anti sieze was used, and it would have become corrosive in a high radiation environment. I hope that was discovered in a lab, and not a submarine 70 years ago.
I bed to differ, I have made that mistake a lot more than once