Rusty Bolts

[rossco61]

Received an Email from Martin -- Via Styluslist -- saying his Damper bolts had rusted in and he would have to cut them out!!
Such a catastrophe should never happen, --- IF you take care and a little time to smear an Anti-Seize compound on the bolts first.

My advice to all Stylus builders, in fact to anybody who bolts anything together that might be out in the Weather and might have to be taken apart sometime in the future, is to ALWAYS use Anti-Seize on at least the threads.
In Good old Oz, we used a product called "Never-Seize" which is lately rather difficult to find, (it was probably too good, so was taken off the market.) or a close second is "COPR-KOTE" ! Again, in Oz, it is a product of the Ampol Petroleum company. It may be available in GB or there is sure to be a similar product under another brand name. It sure saves a lot of anguish later !!!

[stylussprinter]

Received an Email from Martin -- Via Styluslist -- saying his Damper bolts had rusted in and he would have to cut them out!!
Such a catastrophe should never happen, --- IF you take care and a little time to smear an Anti-Seize compound on the bolts first.

My advice to all Stylus builders, in fact to anybody who bolts anything together that might be out in the Weather and might have to be taken apart sometime in the future, is to ALWAYS use Anti-Seize on at least the threads.
In Good old Oz, we used a product called "Never-Seize" which is lately rather difficult to find, (it was probably too good, so was taken off the market.) or a close second is "COPR-KOTE" ! Again, in Oz, it is a product of the Ampol Petroleum company. It may be available in GB or there is sure to be a similar product under another brand name. It sure saves a lot of anguish later !!!

To be honest mate , I'm astounded at the total lack of maintenance that some builder/owners apply to their pride and joy I bought one to improve and sell on last year and found the complete chassis rusted over and all the shock units were ' shot ' plus seized bolts ---- I had to cut them out with a diamond disc as space was tight Basically they're just driven and put in the shed till next time so they'll pay the price
I remove the shocks occasionally for a clean up when it's difficult to get at every part --- give the springs a clean --- WD the lot and bolt up using copper grease. WD the chassis too after cleaning off dirt etc.

[alecmartin19]

if people carried out maintenance like this on every car it would make mechanics jobs a lot easier and save us all money i'm sure! i use WD 40 on my car after taking it out and its still in the condition it was when i built it!

Never sieze is still available in the UK. we use it here on parts of our aircraft engines that get hot! very good stuff!

[stylussprinter]

Precisely Alec My chassis is virtually as built and all bolts are original apart from the threads cut off that were over long and the addition of ' K ' nuts , curticy of Mr Bailey (F1 floor sweepings )