LOCTITE® has added LOCTITE® 248 to its wide range of anaerobic threadlockers, which it says is an excellent method of keeping fasteners firmly in place.
Self-loosening of threaded fasteners is a leading cause of catastrophic failure in industrial machinery so maintaining appropriate clamping forces is an important element in their effectiveness.
For applications where a liquid product may be too fluid to stay on the part or difficult to apply, LOCTITE 248 and 268 sticks can be used. The new LOCTITE 248 is a medium strength, single component product for threads up to M50 and LOCTITE® 268 is its high strength counterpart.(…)