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Carrot failure @ Muline 27-Nov-2013 At 10:43:15 AM nmonteith

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On 27/11/2013 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 27/11/2013 nmonteith wrote:
>>The biggest problem is the nut actually loosening so much it falls off.
>That happens quite a bit - in fact this happened recently to anchors bolts
>on a route of mine I did in the early 90s.
>>
>Would a spot of Loctite on the thread at time of installation fix that?

I'm undecided about Loctite. Sometimes a bolt gets loose because it gets pulled out of the hole a touch after extensive usage (rock has to be soft for this to happen generally as it collapses). So you would end up with a spinning hanger and loose bolt but not able to retighten it. Would it also make it impossible to undo the nut when it gets time to replace it? And how do you Loctite a flush head dynabolt? Put the Loctite inside the hole on the expansion cone??