Gryffydd
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This is what I'd like to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loctite#Products
P.S. Using the correct terminology will be unimportant...just as soon as we perfect telepathy.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loctite#Products
P.S. Using the correct terminology will be unimportant...just as soon as we perfect telepathy.
Well, you guys aren't piling all over the guy who was asking about "silver" primers vs. "gold" primers..... the reason is that you know what he meant and he didn't have to state "nickel plated" primers or "brass" primers.... the same here, its obvious what the OP meant simply from the context, dogged insistence on specific terminology in such a case is just plain fussy and rather foolish. I don't run around correcting people when they mix up "then" and "than" or "effect" and "affect", I just make sure I use them correctly and leave it at that 
I say save the sweating over fussy details for where it really matters, things like range safety, general safety, and gunsmithing practices to name a few.
I say save the sweating over fussy details for where it really matters, things like range safety, general safety, and gunsmithing practices to name a few.
Gryffydd
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No, we don't. We can make assumptions based on the context, but we don't "know". In fact we have to make the assumption that he was talking about something he wasn't even talking about.
We also have no idea what kind of Loctite he was using
Oh, and I'd say people are mostly jumping on him for saying terminology is unimportant and that he's going to insist on using the wrong terminology on purpose--not so much for using the wrong terminology to start with.
That's a good question, although it's usually pretty safe to assume that most people are referring to one of the thread-locking compounds (the moderators must be out of stock for this thread
). In this case, since the stuff took about a week to solidify, according to the OP, this is even more probable because it would have cured a lot faster in the absence of oxygen, just as it was designed to.I'm not even sure whether the "silver-colored" ones are nickle-plated, although that is very probably a true assumption.
the same here, its obvious what the OP meant simply from the context, dogged insistence on specific terminology in such a case is just plain fussy and rather foolish. I don't run around correcting people when they mix up "then" and "than" or "effect" and "affect", I just make sure I use them correctly and leave it at that
That's why I did NOT correct the OP's use of terminology myself, but he still jumped all over me for suggesting that he use a "control group" to test whether the Loctite had any positive effect. There is really no other way of knowing, but he was apparently highly offended that I told him about something that he already knew but didn't use anyway by choice. He applies the exact same principle to terminology--he knows it but refuses to use it purely by choice, people naturally guessed that he must not know it because he didn't use it when it seemed appropriate to do so, and then he got offended when people tried to help him learn about it.
In addition, what really seemed to set the OP off was my statement that using a control group was a part of the scientific method. I simply thought it was interesting to note, and more importantly gave legitimacy to my suggestion. Nothing formal or arrogant was implied on my part, but then he beat the whole forum over the head with it in an angry tirade.
KBintheSLC
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Man... I just read through like 2.5 pages of nothing.
Sport45
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I don't see that as a safe assumption at all. Even if you limit it to "one of" the thread locking compounds it doesn't say a lot.
I think I'll drink a soda now, realizing full well that nobody here knows whether I'm referring to Dr Pepper, Pepsi, Diet Coke, etc.
It really didn't matter which Loctite product the OP used since (as others pointed out) it didn't make a difference anyway.
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