Maybe it's just me, but each set of fireplace tools I've ever had ends up with the handles coming loose and being a PIA by coming loose again every 3rd or 4th time they are used after tightening. I've threatened for years to put loctite on them but never got around to doing it until today.
Cleaned the chimney today, stove pipes, and stove, and after fighting with the tools for one last time (hopefully) I finally took the handles off (and heads for that matter) and put the blue goop on them.
Won't know till they come into full use during the season if it will hold them tight, but I sure hope so. Never used loctite on a simple application like this with coarse threads, so time will tell.
Just one of them silly things that has bugged me and I've intended to do for years but never have.
pen
Cleaned the chimney today, stove pipes, and stove, and after fighting with the tools for one last time (hopefully) I finally took the handles off (and heads for that matter) and put the blue goop on them.
Won't know till they come into full use during the season if it will hold them tight, but I sure hope so. Never used loctite on a simple application like this with coarse threads, so time will tell.
Just one of them silly things that has bugged me and I've intended to do for years but never have.
pen