Anybody use (blue) Lock-Tight on your scope mounts.....

I do on base screws.

I use blue loctite on all scope mounts and compensators . Never had anything come loose with it and never had a problem taking anything apart . Degrease with something and dry with compressed air . Works for me .

I never have in the past, but I did find a rimfire scope somewhat loose recently. I decided to start using purple threadlocker, I'm concerned blue will be too strong for those little machine screws that seem to strip heads easily.

I use blue loctite on the bases, the ring screws just torqued to spec with a wheeler torque screwdriver. If you don't have any yet, I would tell you to consider the Loctite sticks, they are so much easier and less messy than the fluid. They look like kids glue sticks but are loctite.

I use blue on the mounts but not the rings. A torque wrench is important.

The Smith does it as an extra measure to CYA.

If you torque properly and are not rapid firing, no should ever have to.

I use nail polish. Secures the screws. Lets go with a pleasing snap if you need to remove them. Worst case put a drop or two of remover on and let set awhile.

Yes

I have never, ever used LocTite on mounts. Have taken rifles through some of the most extreme conditions possible in North America.

The professionals I've known have always told me it's simply not necessary on a quality rifle using quality mounts.

Yes. Every. Time.

I never use blue loctite on anything smaller than a 1/4" bolt as that is what it's designed for. I started using fingernail polish back in the sixties for scope bases, long before loctite was available. I've never had it fail. Maybe I haven't been using high enough quality bases and rifles to attach them to.

I definitely use LocTite mounting rails or bases on handguns or rifles. While I haven't had to LocTite rings on a rifle, I have had to do it to handguns. Especially with autoloaders where the slide or bolt acts as a screw loosening hammer.

I've been told it isn't necessary for quality mounts and rings properly torqued. I use it on bases all the time. I do use a Wheeler torque driver.

-Jeff

Yep,but still check torque often.

Bartojc said:

I've been told it isn't necessary for quality mounts and rings properly torqued. I use it on bases all the time. I do use a Wheeler torque driver.

-Jeff

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Over a very long time of using scopes I have had to add fingernail polish to a couple of rings that wouldn't stay tight. I will admit that these two rings weren't of top notch quality but they both did their job after a dab of polish. Other than that it's been bases that loosened but not after the polish application and now I just do it as part of my base mounting procedure.

Blue Loctite. Never had a screw back out.

I use blue loctite on base screws. Sometimes I will use it on the rings depending on the setup as well. For example, 2 screws per ring and the customer will never remove the scope? Maybe loctite of blue or purple variety. In addition to using thread locker where I use it, I always use a torque wrench set to whatever spec I can find. In my experience, many screws loosen because they were just set to finger tight or too tight and they stripped. Loctite is added insurance.

Yup, blue threadlocker and I use a torque wrench, always. Bases and rings, but if there's a concern, use the purple.

a2x4bbl said:

I use blue loctite on all scope mounts and compensators . Never had anything come loose with it and never had a problem taking anything apart . Degrease with something and dry with compressed air . Works for me .

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Purple is designed by the same company for smaller screws, such as you'd find on scope mounts.

Blue yes. Red no no no

So, JB Weld is out?

I don't use locktite unless I have a problem with screws staying put. I have one rifle, a Savage 23D in .22 Hornet, That I got for next to nothing at a gun show, when I was told that the scope mount kept coming loose. Blue locktite fixed it.

I use a product called Vibra Tite VC3.
Use it for all mounting screws on optics,
flashlights, and accessories.

I use blue or nail polish. But last 4 Leupold scopes put on by my favorite gunsmith didn't have anything added to bases or rings. Now I noticed he used Leupold bases and rings at $40 or more per scope. Going on 4 years and all 06s and 270s are still shooting sub MOA,
He did have a ounce/inch gauge and I suspect those new screws were self locking. The real question is how much are you willing to pay for a good scope mount?