You guys that use Vibratite to keep HST settings
- Thread starter Glem.Chally
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I didn't know there was more than one strength. The one I use is sort of pink. It works perfectly. I use it to keep the HST nut from moving in my WildCat. I never have to touch it. Nice thing is, if you DO want to adjust it, you can. And it will stay where you leave it. Pretty good stuff. I've been using it since way back when I bought my first Marauder. So that would have been 7 or 8 years ago.
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I use Vibratite, and didn't know they offer two now either. The low strength should be fine for your application as well.
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I like vibratite, but the only thing I don’t like about it in a hammer screw application, is if you still plan to adjust that screw long after you applied it, it flakes off of the threads, and who knows where those flakes will end up. Just to see for yourself, use them on your scope ring screws and a week later remove the screws and you’ll see what I mean. At least with blue locktight, used sparingly, there’s no flake.
On marauder guns I learned a trick from Hill Airguns. Take the screw at the bottom of the gun, the one off of the trigger group that holds the end cap on, and drop a short length of weed eater line(.171” in length) into that screw hole. The weed eater line will fall in and rest on the hammer screw threads. Replace the screw you took off, and when you tighten it down the screw will crush that weed eater line against the hammer screw threads. That hammer screw will never move or back off the setting you have it at.
I have yet to really study my Wildcat, but I’m thinking once I find the hammer adjustment setting I like, I’m gonna drop in a length of plastic rod dowel, which I found in the bins of my local Ace Hardware. If I space that rod just right, it will sandwhich itself between the inside of the stock and the face of that hammer screw. It shouldn’t move then, I’m thinking.
On marauder guns I learned a trick from Hill Airguns. Take the screw at the bottom of the gun, the one off of the trigger group that holds the end cap on, and drop a short length of weed eater line(.171” in length) into that screw hole. The weed eater line will fall in and rest on the hammer screw threads. Replace the screw you took off, and when you tighten it down the screw will crush that weed eater line against the hammer screw threads. That hammer screw will never move or back off the setting you have it at.
I have yet to really study my Wildcat, but I’m thinking once I find the hammer adjustment setting I like, I’m gonna drop in a length of plastic rod dowel, which I found in the bins of my local Ace Hardware. If I space that rod just right, it will sandwhich itself between the inside of the stock and the face of that hammer screw. It shouldn’t move then, I’m thinking.
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A drop of blue loctite is all you need imo. And you can adjust the screw later if you wish. It works it self out when adjusting the screw.
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I tried Vibra-tite. It didn't wok for me. I tried blue Loc-tite and it worked but you have to use it each time you change anything and eventually it gets down in there and gums up the guides that the HST runs on.
I cleaned it out and tried Teflon tape that someone suggested. Take the screw out, wrap some of the T-tape on the screw and set the screw where you want it and it will hold. And things stay clean.
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I cleaned it out and tried Teflon tape that someone suggested. Take the screw out, wrap some of the T-tape on the screw and set the screw where you want it and it will hold. And things stay clean.
KP/NC
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