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    Posted: 13 Oct 2017 at 12:34pm
as a matter of habit I clean up the rusty bolts I take off on a wire wheel.
but I'm looking for something other than Loctite blue or red to coat them with prior to reuse.
I seem to recall some very seasoned restorer on here saying he soaked all bolts in engine oil before reusing them.  or maybe just dipped them.
what do you guys do?
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coat of neversieze
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Originally posted by Dakota Dave Dakota Dave wrote:

coat of neversieze


Anti seize on everything unless it showed signs of a place where vibration was making bolts back off. 
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I put never seize on everything when I reassembled my WD45.
Grease would be the old time version and would last better than oil
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Use a 50/50 mixture of loctite and anti-sieze. That way the bolt will stay where you put it, until you want it to come out.
The mechanic always wins.

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Yes, I'm joking.
The mechanic always wins.

B91131, WC23065, WD89101, CA29479, B1, Early B10, HB212, 416H
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Originally posted by littlemarv littlemarv wrote:

Use a 50/50 mixture of loctite and anti-sieze. That way the bolt will stay where you put it, until you want it to come out.
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whew!
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I throw em in the scrap iron bucket.Wink
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littlemarv sez "That way the bolt will stay where you put it, until you want it to come out." for his 50/50 mix, but the same applies to Dave's scrap bucket, too...
hee hee hee
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If they are large or of the rare type, the bolt in the wheel stops on PA rims!  I paint  them with POR and then paint them whatever color they need to be where they are going.  I put anti-seize on when installing.
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A high percentage of mine go in the scrap bucket too. I like new fasteners whenever possible.
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I have a bucket of old rusty bolts that was dumped on the floor a few years back that I sort thru to find that special bolt that is not in my new bolt bens. When I take out an old rusty bolt now that shouldn't really be reused I toss it in the general direction of the pile to give me more to sort thru.
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Over the last 30 years I have been building liquid manure pumps with 2 to 7 1/2 HP electric motors. I put a coat of anti-sieze on the bolts and can still take the nuts off after 5-10 years sitting in a manure tank. Anti-sieze is a good product for some applications.
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An old bolt has to look pretty new, be easy to get at, and not have much stress on it before I'll re-use it. Too many times, I've been in a tight spot using an old bolt, got the nut half ways on, not gets beyond hand tight, put the tools on it, tighten some more, and pretty soon the nut won't go on any farther, nor will it come off. Then I cuss. Darrel
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Mike, Dave, don't let ole Ted hear about you throwin anything in no scrap bucket. Specially if'n it's got orange paint on it.

I throw mine in a mesh tray an when the tray gets full I run em through the bead blaster. They got a coffee looking can with a handle on it that's made outa mesh so the glass beads go through. Pretty handy tool. Thet hardware is to expensive for me to throw it all out.
I still gots my A/C but it's clear out in the barn now.
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when using a plow in corn stalks, I would always lose them flip pins in the lower 3-pt arms that hold the plow on. so I had some of them hardened bolts out of some old CHevy heads and put them in there with a nut on about 1/2 way up, never had anymore problems after that. most old bolts can be used for chit like that, and if yer scared about one coming loose, double nut it!
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AMEN.........
No matter how old or rusty, everything has it's place.
Ole Les has a good memory. That's good!  Glad I could learn you some frugality....
I wire brush em cause I don't have a bead blaster.  I'm gonna have to get one.
Any old ones get cleaned as good as can be and inspected and reused if possible.  The ones that don't pass inspection, well,,,,,,,,(don't let Les read this),,,,,,,, well, they go in the iron pile.  They can be used for electrolysis if nothing else.
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19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17
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