Help: What kind of Loctite thread lock should I purchase?
Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 10:06 pm
Hello,
I recently received a new titanium spindles for my Speedplay Zero pedals. I bought the spindles from an asian seller at ebay. The brand of the spindles is of course not speedplay (these cost around 200$), the brand is supposed to be J&L titanium, or something like that.
The problem is that today I went for a short 25Km ride and just 5 km from home the right pedal body and all that goes inside it went out of the spindle!!! It also uncliped from the cleat, so it ended up on a side of the road. Fortunately I could find it and nothing happened to me, it was on a flat section and I wasn't going too fast. I noticed that the problem was that the little bolt that keeps the pedal body to the spindle came loose, as it has not counter thread, and it was not the original bolt from the original spindle, which comes with a blue product on the thread, so it doesn't come apart; it was the new little bolt, which i even greased and perhaps did not tightened properly. big mistake.
What i've done is remove that little bolt and install the original one strongly. This one has that blue product to lock the thread so I hope it stays in place. But as this seems like too risky, I want to disassemble it again, clean it properly and apply a good thread lock product, so it won't happen again. If it happens again on a downhill, I could kill myself. So, the question is; what product should I buy to lock the thread? I´ve heard several times about loctite, but I don't know which is the proper one for this. I can either buy it on my usual online source (bike-discount.de) if they have it, or in a big hardware store that i have near my house or in ebay but, again, which one should I buy so this doesn't happen again? thanks a lot.
I recently received a new titanium spindles for my Speedplay Zero pedals. I bought the spindles from an asian seller at ebay. The brand of the spindles is of course not speedplay (these cost around 200$), the brand is supposed to be J&L titanium, or something like that.
The problem is that today I went for a short 25Km ride and just 5 km from home the right pedal body and all that goes inside it went out of the spindle!!! It also uncliped from the cleat, so it ended up on a side of the road. Fortunately I could find it and nothing happened to me, it was on a flat section and I wasn't going too fast. I noticed that the problem was that the little bolt that keeps the pedal body to the spindle came loose, as it has not counter thread, and it was not the original bolt from the original spindle, which comes with a blue product on the thread, so it doesn't come apart; it was the new little bolt, which i even greased and perhaps did not tightened properly. big mistake.
What i've done is remove that little bolt and install the original one strongly. This one has that blue product to lock the thread so I hope it stays in place. But as this seems like too risky, I want to disassemble it again, clean it properly and apply a good thread lock product, so it won't happen again. If it happens again on a downhill, I could kill myself. So, the question is; what product should I buy to lock the thread? I´ve heard several times about loctite, but I don't know which is the proper one for this. I can either buy it on my usual online source (bike-discount.de) if they have it, or in a big hardware store that i have near my house or in ebay but, again, which one should I buy so this doesn't happen again? thanks a lot.