loctite

Greetings, I just installed a full wrap on a 461, but out of curiosity I looked up torque specs in the repair manual, as the screws go right into plastic, which seems like a horrible design. Anyway, long story short, the torque wrench you'd need costs like 400 dollars and nowhere I know rents...

Went to reassemble a 372 and discovered the pto side bearing could slide right in. Did a little reading and some people recommended using loctite 660 to tighten up the tolerance. Will a fix like this hold up? I’m concerned it’s a bandaid fix not a true solution.

I put a new cylinder and piston kit on a MS661C. One of the rings is binding so I need to take it back off to see what's going on. Trouble is, I used blue loctite (never doing that again) on the cylinder screws and now three of them won't come out. I tried a soldering iron and then a small torch...

I'm having idle problems on my new ms250. I looked down those 3 holes to the adjust needles and was surprised to see a conventional slotted head screw. I expected to see some kind of tamper proof thing. However, putting a screwdriver in there they don't budge at all. Are they loctited in...

I was doing some reading on another site and one guy mentioned this stuff, Loctite 380 Black Max. I found some on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Dindustrial&field-keywords=Loctite+Black+Max&rh=n%3A16310091%2Ck%3ALoctite+Black+Max). The context was those...