I just replaced a leaky cartidge in a bathroom faucette and the hardware store man said to use silicone grease for two reasons: 1) to prevent leaky threads; and 2) to prevent either mineralization or oxidization from making the threaded nuts difficult to remove years later.
Question: would silicone grease make sense to use on any threaded applications on a bike? Bikes are subjected to road spray, rain, and dew intermitently. I suppose ordinary grease can do the job, but I wondered if any list members see any advantages, or disadvantages to using silicone grease on bike threads to facilitate subsequent tinkering? I typed in silicone grease into the archives and came up with several entries, but they did not seem to come down squarely on either side of this question.
Don Wilson Los Olivos, CA USA
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