Hi Forum;
I do not own a Shield but I really wonder why S & W if they are the culprit is using Loctite Red on ANY gun screws!
The main manufacturing plant for this stuff is Henkel located right across the street from my work where I am sitting at the moment.
My company switched years ago to Loctite BLUE (No. 242)which is a very high quality small thread locker, but is formulated to be removable with standard hand tools. Loctite RED (No. 271) is labeled and identified commercially as a "permanent" thread locker requiring heat to 500 F before you can begin to think about removal.
My company manufactures high speed, high pressure power generation equipment and we must lock not only screws, and bolts, but also the outer races of large (8 inch O.D.) rolling element bearings into cast steel housings. To lock in bearing races we USED to use Loctite Cylindrical Parts Locker which was a different shade of red, but still red. That stuff cannot be released without a healthy dose of C4 in my opinion. The blue works swell and our equipment sometimes experiences very high vibrations during transient condition runs.
We had to switch to blue because the two different reds got mixed up in the shop and when that equipment came back in for normal overhaul, we had to "gas-axe" it apart whereas before normal rosebuds on oxy/acet would release the 271.
I have joked with the Henkel plant manager before that if ever two of his big tankers ever wreck in the street and rupture allowing the two compounds to join and into Loctite Red we won't be able to ever get out and go home!
Anyway..........does anyone know what firm is applying the Loctite Red to the Shield screws? Is it S & W and if so, has the factory been complained to? They must know about these troubles if new Owners are "up in arms so to speak".
