Originally Posted by
rm -rf
My bottle of loctite is still good after 10 years, at least. I use it for more than bikes, too. It's helpful to have it in my toolkit.
I recently rebuilt my recumbent (disassembled for cleaning and adjustment) and the mid drive RD mount is not
positively located but fixed in place with loktite. Well my 10 or more year old loktite failed despite recleaning
several times. A new bottle worked fine to freeze the RD mount in place but not so much as to make removal
difficult as I had to take it down again for another reason. You may not realize that the stuff is not doing its job
unless the part comes loose, and the vast majority of our bike use the loktite is not under much stress, unlike
my RD mount or the OPs brake mount which is stressed every time the brakes are applied.
Point is loktite is cheap and should be discarded after 5-8 yrs of opening.