Tail Rotor Blade Grip Nuts?

[EBrom]

Thinking strongly about using nuts with nylon lock in them instead of the standard ball shaped nuts when assembling my 500X tail blades to the grips. Seems like a better choice, then I will still apply locktite.
Any suggestions?? Does it even make any difference?

[AUSS1E]

Lock nuts and locktite is what I always do.

[Xrayted]

Loctite is only for metal to metal contact surfaces, and does nothing otherwise. In many cases it will eat certain plastics. The nylon inserts in nut are performing the same job as thread locker, so you don't use it with that type of hardware.

[jhamel]

Originally Posted by Xrayted

Loctite is only for metal to metal contact surfaces...it will eat certain plastics. The nylon inserts in nut are performing the same job as thread locker.

+1

Correct. Nylon lock nuts is all you need for tightening the blades. Do not use Loctite with the nylon lock nuts. Just make sure the blade bolts are shouldered.

[EBrom]

Here's my newly rebuilt tail.


Should I replace the nylon nuts with original ball nuts, or possibly add ball type nuts onto the ends of the bolts in addition to the nylon nuts to counter any "tennis racket effect"?
Or just forget the nylon nuts all together and put the original ball not back on and forget it....hmm.