About Lock-tite & girly hands...
We have encountered a (probably typically female) problem - and just wanted to hear your views:
When disassembling/fixing/replacing things, there are instances when it is COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY impossible for us, to loosen things.
Seriously - we spent an hour the other day, trying to disconnect an electrical connector - and when a male knight in shining armour finally arrived - he was able to just pull it apart with brute force.
We just don't have the physical strenghth required to do it!
Since part of our 'bike prep' schedule is to work our way through and replace all fasteners (including electrical chocolate-block pluggie thingies) -- we thought it would be good to make sure that everything is easily REMOVABLE for us.
HOWEVER -- everyone advises that, in order to avoid vibration - we need to locktite things in.
This poses the question: if we are all by ourselves in the wilds of Africa - and something breaks, and we are supposed to take it off/loosen it... what do we do??
And if we DONT fasten stuff tightly -- it may all fall apart!!
SOooooo - we thought MAYBE we could just create a little SCHEDULE of CHECKING all the stuff... every day...?
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