copper grease?

[anonymous-user]

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[Barreti]

I paint it on the back of alloys to stop them bonding to the hub.

In fact, I use it for most things now I have a 1lb tub of it!

[esso]

Used it on all my cars for years with no problem,much better than having a steel bolt corroded into an aluminium part.You mentioned rubber...use red race grease for rubber components.

[Griffithy]

I use copper grease for hubs and wheel nuts etc. on all sort of cars also.
For years now, and not lost one screw or nut yet.
I am also very happy when I get a car back from inspection and see the workshop had used some of it. It shows they have spent some attention to detail.

[FreeLitres]

Barreti said:

I paint it on the back of alloys to stop them bonding to the hub.

^ This.

The wheels on my Wife's snotter golf are rusted on to the hub so hard that you could probably drive the car around without any wheel bolts on! Takes a good few whacks with a mallet to get them off.

[turbobob]

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[Griffithy]

Thanks very much for sharing, Bob.
Good to know that we have been using it properly.

[swallet]

I apply it to the backs of my pads and the wheel hubs. Also a smear on spark plug threads.


I once applied it to my caliper bolts as they were a bd to get off & I thought - "If I put plenty of this stuff on they'll come off easier next time"
Well they did come off easy, except I was driving at the time!!

Thankfully no damage done - disassembled brakes, wiped off copper grease and applied blue loctite. Still solid after 1500miles.

Could have been that I forgot to torque that bolt up but I'm pretty sure I did, either way I don't put copper grease on any critical bolts that I don't want coming off now.

[pmessling]

The torque of a bolt changes when it is used dry or with the likes of copper grease. Although not sure if its more or less torque. Just something I have read in the past.

I've always used it, and even on the trains at work. Torque settings at work are tight,tighter, or Jenkins tight, referring to someone who always does things up that most normal people can't undo

[ridds]

Lower the torque set point when using copper grease as it reduces the friction in the thread.

[Bassfiend]

Copper grease is incontrovertible evidence of three highly emotive and controversial facts...

1) That God exists - no other way could Copper Grease have come to pass.

2) That He is a petrolhead.

...and, by extrapolation...

3) That fossil fuels were left there for us to burn as noisily as possible.