Thread: Loctite question

Originally Posted by Kiwi Greg

Don't put Loctite on ring screws, just bases etc.

If it turns pear shaped scopes aren't that keen on heat

+1 is easy to check is your scope ring screws are tight but hard to check is the bases are tight.

Originally Posted by MassiveAttack

+1 is easy to check is your scope ring screws are tight but hard to check is the bases are tight.

Yeh on one hunt to the Godley a guy in our team discovered his bases loose - bloody criminal. I use loctite on base screws, sometimes cross screws but never ever ring screws. Also, after I fit a scope and fire the rifle I recheck with ring screws with the torque wrench again. BTW if you do use loctite 243 on the ring screws nothing as dramatic as heating would be required to undo them just a very correctly fitting screwdriver, something that a lot of people obviously don't have when you look at the state of screws on second hand rifles in gun shops.