Originally Posted by bostontrevor
Ok, 2nd question: no I won't just be riding ice, so the lockring becomes important. What's the technique people usually use? I'm thinking grease the threads on the cog, thread on, thoroughly wipe out exposed hub threads with paper towel, "grease" threads of lockring with loctite, thread on, set.
(Natch I would whip down the cog and wrench down the ring too)
that sounds like a good approach. i may end being sorry i did this, but i actually used loctite (the blue kind) on the cog as well as the lockring. ordinarily it is rule number one in my garage to grease everything i plan to remove someday, but i justified this exception for two reasons: 1) i use blue loctite on the right-hand thread drive-side bottom bracket cups of my italian- and french-threaded bikes and have always been able to remove them when necessary, and b) if i end up unable to remove the cog from my non-track hub it's no great loss, it's just a cheap hub anyway, i have a track hub waiting for the right moment.
so i'm not really recommending you glue the cog on too, just kind of throwing it out there, as an experiment someone has done, without really knowing how it's going to turn out. and yes, i skid on occasion, and the setup has not slipped.