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    Milk of Magnesia

    Reading an old bike magazine today I saw an odd tip.
    Some fellow who worked on jet engines claimed Milk of Magnesia is a suitable anti-seize product for high heat areas.

    Its a bit hard to imagine a multi million dollar jet with its bits covered in laxative.

    Anyone here heard of or done this?

    #2
    Cooks away and leaves a powered metal behind? Sounds like it might work. Interesting, on jet engines they use a blob of RTV on some bolt heads to keep the bolts from coming loose.
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    Life is too short to ride an L.

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      #3
      Good god its true. True or all these posters are part of a conspiracy.
      I experienced a rather unusual situation today. I was doing a inspection on a air seal inside of a GE CF6-80A2 jet engine. While reading through the inspection criteria I noticed that the reassembly procedure included using a anti-seize compound on the attach fasteners. I chuckled when I saw...

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        #4
        yep it is true i work at GE aircraft engines and we use it.

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          #5
          +1
          My dad was an air force machinist and I heard that story more than once when changing header bolts, etc. "If it's good enough for an aircraft..." was a common phrase in the house.

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