Improvised Anti-seize

[Ducked]

Copper-based antiseize is very difficult to find here, though I now know a place in the next city where I could buy a kg tub of it, which would last me until the heat death of the universe.

I make aluminium-based antiseize (which I've never seen here) as follows. Put a tiny dab of your grease of choice in the base dimple of an (empty, or at least unopened) beer or soft drinks can.

This is your mortar

Roll up a wee ball of aluminium foil, the finer the better.

This is your pestle

Rub the pestle around in the mortar until the grease looks dark gray enough. Then scoop it out with your finger and apply.

If you don't want to get your finger dirty, wear gloves (or use a plastic bag) but you were probably doing that already, you big Jessie.

Course you lot can just drop in to Walmart, or wherever, but you might get caught out sometime.

 

[Rand]

how does this put aluminum into the grease?

 

[Ducked]

Originally Posted By: Rand
how does this put aluminum into the grease?


The two aluminium surfaces wear against each other. The resultant powder and flakes get dispersed in the grease by the rubbing action.

Its like a "normal" mortar and pestle action, except that both the mortar and the pestle are contributing materials.

It would be a pain to produce more than a tiny amount by this method, but I only generally need a tiny amount. When I've needed more (e.g brake backing plate) I've made it in situ, using aluminium tubing/beercan in a power drill.

 

[Quest]

If only I knew you have so much trouble getting high temp antiseize over in Taiwan would I connect with a friend of mine to bring over a couple of small tins (he just shipped his family + 8th gen civic si + parts back to Tainan a month ago) ....

Too late now ...

Q.

 

[Ducked]

Thanks for the thought anyway. Taiwan is a muvva, but then so is necessity...

Incidentally, I'm surprised its worth privately shipping a Civic in, unless someone else is paying. I understood they stuck you with big import tax and [censored] EPA inspection charges to make it uneconomic.

 

[mjoekingz28]

I havent seen WalMart carrying it.

 

[Quest]

Originally Posted By: Ducked
Thanks for the thought anyway. Taiwan is a muvva, but then so is necessity...

Incidentally, I'm surprised its worth privately shipping a Civic in, unless someone else is paying. I understood they stuck you with big import tax and [censored] EPA inspection charges to make it uneconomic.


*smiles*

I have friends who shipped Integra and upgrade packages (Toda cams, etc.) along back to Taiwan before; this round was a 8th gen civic SI with extra brakes stuff (Hawks HPS pads, for street and slalom race use, etc.)

to some folks it's worth it; others maybe not.

I personally like k-cars from jpn, but used one fetch a premium in our area and w/o servicing parts, it's not worth my while.

Take care.

Q.

 

[Ducked]

Not many kei cars here. They don't quite provide the necessary "face" for Taiwanese.

There are a few old CMC copies of the Mitsubishi Towny which I'd quite fancy, (450 cc air cooled twin cylinder, IIRC) and lately I've seen a few shiny restored ones, but generally, apart from a few BMC Mini's and VW Beetles there are very few old cars of any kind here.

There isn't the regulatory pressure to scrap that there is in Japan, just a cult of shiny newness.

 

[Olas]

Just buy a tub from eBay and save yourself the hassle. Or PM me your home address and I'll send it to you

 

[Ducked]

Not really THAT much hassle (how often does one need anti-seize, after all?) but thanks for the offer.

GF is set on visiting Los Angeles this summer so I might pick some up then. Similarly, I got a couple of sachets of Bendix Ceramlube brake lubricant when I was in Australia, but can't find them.

I tend to hoard the complimentary shampoo sachets they give you in hotels, which the GF disapproves of, so she may have chucked them.

Either that or she used them on her hair.