So my big bottle of permatex anti seize finally ran out, so off to the local autoparts store to replace.
Well guess what... its no longer nickel in a grease base but aluminum. Not real happy about that. Its soft, but it also oxidizes leaving basicly a super hard ceramic as a 'lubricant'. Not nice at all...
Hopped on amazon, and there is a wide variety of suspended metals... silver, copper, nickel, and aluminum.
So I picked up a new jar of Nickel anti seize that is NRC approved
...that's nuclear regulatory commission
... and some copper based too.
I read years ago when I was young when carol smiths first book came out back in 1984 when i just started high school and was beginning to wrench on motorbikes. that copper was the way to go by his opinion. Copaslip was the brand he suggested. He also got me started on my fastener fetish
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High performance fasteners are often silver plated as a protective and anti seize coating.
Thus I was wondering if anyone had opinions on what to use where, or if there is rule of thumb for anti seize type. The crower Ti rods I got came with a graphite based anti seize which surprised me.
Its messy, but I use the stuff everywhere cause stuff comes apart so much nicer up the road...