Stainless Steel Lug Nuts----Don't Use Them!
Some of you may remember an earlier post of mine where I had galled all the lug bolts on my 5th wheel. After a month of many problems I won't bore you with, we solved the problem. Turns out, about...
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Sounds like it was a completely stainless nut which was why it galled up.
We used them at our plant only when we needed to use a fastener in a hostile environment. A stainless fastener is very likely to gall if it is tightened up with dirt, or contamination on the threads or overtightened. Or if they were tightened and loosened a number of times. Any of our steel bolts that were exposed to water or steam were used in conjunction with anti-seize so we could remove the fasteners when the time came. We also used it when we used dis-similar metals.
We used them at our plant only when we needed to use a fastener in a hostile environment. A stainless fastener is very likely to gall if it is tightened up with dirt, or contamination on the threads or overtightened. Or if they were tightened and loosened a number of times. Any of our steel bolts that were exposed to water or steam were used in conjunction with anti-seize so we could remove the fasteners when the time came. We also used it when we used dis-similar metals.
