Log burning stove - glass window clamping

The stove has two doors and both glasses have now cracked and are being replaced. There's a clamp bar top and bottom held in by M6 bolts - the bottom bolts have corroded into the cast door frame and the heads have sheared off. Tiresome.

Short of slackening these bolts off say once a year to brake the corrosion, has the collective any suggestions on say change of bolt material to prevent this happening in future - the future I hope being

15 years away again.

Thanks Rob

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robgraham
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Copper grease (eg Copperease, used on brake parts in cars) was what I was advised to use - I did straight away. I'll have to see how well it worked later!

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Tim Watts

Thanks Tim - that's a good idea. Can you remember if the bolts were ordinary MS or stainless? The bolts all need replacing so it's a Screwfix visit tomorrow morning.

Rob

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robgraham

I don't think they were stainless. Copper grease will assist with MS/iron interfaces - the grease burns off leaving a layer of copper (hopefully) which should reduce the tendency for iron oxide to form a bond.

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Tim Watts

I'll report back in 15 years or so if that has been effective !! :>) Rob

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robgraham

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember robgraham saying something like:

Never-Seez specifically mentions furnace door hinges etc.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

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