Thatsa a common trait of stainless steel. Nuts are usually coated with
a silver, or you can use anti sieze. In the military we used a product
called Silver Goop, which worked very well. In less critical areas we
used molybdenum based greases or copper based anti sieze compound.
Silver Goop is kind of pricey.
On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:24:58 -0500, spaco
wrote:
So, I want to fasten things together outside where they will see all the
weather that is there. In order to be able to disassemble the
components years later, I use stainless steel bolts and nuts that I buy
from Fastenal. Sounds good to me, but guess what? The threads gall
when I have to take an assembly apart just a few months after they are
installed! Almost every bolt has this problem.
Smarter now, I have heard that "you can't do that"! You can use
stainless steel bolts, but with plain steel plated nuts, for instance.

My question: To those of you who know what I'm talking about, what
other solutions do you use?

Pete Stanaitis
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