Originally Posted by
noglider
Are you kidding us? How, pray tell, did you come to know this?
No joke, it works. I was working with my uncle, a master mechanic at a Honda dealer, and we were installing a new exhaust on my car. There were a couple bolts that needed threadlocker. He used Maalox around the threads of the bolt and the threads of the part it went in, and explained it worked just as well as Loctite (not permanent Loctite, mind you. This is only for something you may remove later, it prevents corrosion and thus keeps a bolt from rusting onto the nut). If you require the part to never move again after the threadlocker has been applied, use the genuine article and not antacid.