#246 - Threadlock

This threadlock compound could be used in place of  Loctite Blue

Sam Cheng of HobbyLink @ 3rd Flr Far East Plaza

See the 1/8 buggy @ $930? Expensive toys!

Today's post was prompted by my having misplaced

my threadlocking compound AKA Loctite Blue.

 

 

The first thing that baffled me when I was learning

how to assemble mountain bikes is that grease is always

required whenever you screw something to something.

This is the exact opposite of the standard practice in

building remote control cars. For RC cars, you put

threadlock whenever a screw needs to be screwed in

to a metal part.

  

 

So when attaching the cleats on my new Bontrager

RXLs, I looked for my threadlock/blue Loctite. I can't

find it in it's usual place only to remember that I left

it in the office.

  

 

I went to HobbyLink at Far East Plaza to get a

small bottle of threadlocking compound. Once there,

I had a chat with old friend Sam, the owner of HobbyLink

and he told me that he now rides a Gary Fisher RumbleFish.

He said he prefers this more than his Trek 29er HT

and his Nicolai 26 FS. The RumbleFish is apparently

a lot kinder on his lower back. He normally rides at
Tampines MTB Park and so I asked him if the
full sus 29er RumbleFish is "slow" in Tampines
knowing that that place is mostly twisting singletrack?
He said it's ok and he doesn't have any problems.

After talking about MTBs, the topic then went
to why we normally ride alone and seems to be always
in a hurry to get home... and we realised maybe it's
because we are 'paying' for all those times that we
spent RC racing instead of going out with our families.
So now that we're out of RC, we cycle and then
quickly, without any delay, ride home. I asked him
how much does he need to 'pay' for, he said 25 years
of racing. Ahhhh, I only have to pay for 10 years.

Hehehehe this is what keeps me going back to

HobbyLink even if I'm no longer racing RC. Talk

about old hobbies (RC) and new hobbies (MTB).