Ed Pawlowski wrote in news:n5mdnUv9O6jxZ_XOnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
Looked at Walmart Saturday but no success. Plenty of Loctite stuff but no anti-seize. Looked in automotive, plumbing and tool departments. Another department? Another store?
TIA
Any auto parts store.
Henkel Loctite brand is one of the most common brands of anti-seize available to and used by the automotive trade as well as most industrial mechanics - available from any good automotive or industrial supplier. Try Grainger.
The other common brand is Permatex.
I didn't find a match on Harbor Freight. But, most auto parts near me have some. Small tube, or jar with brush in the lid.
When I didn't have antiseize handy I always used a bit of moly grease, seemed to work as well.
But recently I've heard people using Teflon tape instead of antiseize and it sounds like a good idea.
I never like to tighten any type of fastener dry.
TimR wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Hmmm. Great, if it works! It would also seal the connection, another common fault with some screw-on connections.
In my recent rehosing of my swamp cooler water supply I had to replace the garden hose supplying the water because it kept developing new major leaks. A few years ago I had problems with the threads leaking at the connection between the old hose and the adapter to the copper tubing connector to the cooler. I used teflon tape then to cure that problem. I noted when I recently changed hoses that I could remove the old hose at that teflon point with only a little trouble. I had written it off to chance but as you mentioned, perhaps it was the teflon tape. I may just do that to all the new cooler hose connections and skip the no-seize.
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