Subject: How to melt Loctite? Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:31 am
Apart from industrial levels of heat, is there a chemical which will melt Loctite?
Pete Roper GRiSO Capo
Posts : 10712 Join date : 2013-05-30 Age : 67
Subject: Re: How to melt Loctite? Sat Dec 23, 2017 9:44 am
Depends on the type of course but what are you trying to UN-Loctite you can't bung a bit of heat into?
Papa Lazarou GRiSO Capo
Posts : 826 Join date : 2014-10-07 Age : 70
Subject: Re: How to melt Loctite? Sat Dec 23, 2017 10:03 am
A mix of laziness and fear. I still haven't mounted Ongur's bar risers. I've loosened one bolt but the other won't shift.
Pete Roper GRiSO Capo
Posts : 10712 Join date : 2013-05-30 Age : 67
Subject: Re: How to melt Loctite? Sat Dec 23, 2017 10:54 am
Levers are your friend! Use a longer breaker bar!
Phang Biondino
Posts : 214 Join date : 2013-11-22 Age : 52
Subject: Re: How to melt Loctite? Sun Dec 24, 2017 4:18 am
I use acetone, it works in most cases
eeyore Grignapoco
Posts : 189 Join date : 2016-09-09
Subject: Re: How to melt Loctite? Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:12 am
Loctite is fairly resilient to chemicals. They recommend methylene chloride for cleaning any spill before it cures but I doubt this stuff is readily available to the general public (if you can ge it be careful it is nasty stuff - cacogenic etc.) The melting temp is only 250 deg C.
Papa Lazarou GRiSO Capo
Posts : 826 Join date : 2014-10-07 Age : 70
Subject: Re: How to melt Loctite? Tue Jan 02, 2018 10:01 am
Cheers all. Once I'm over this horrible virus I shall be stripping the left hand bar of all its superfluous nonsense-the clutch lever etc, applying heat and using a 3 foot bar on the dinky little bolt. As a back up, I have super glue remover!
Subject: How to melt Loctite? 
Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:31 am
