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Nope! There's no way any climbing gym would rebuild its walls to be full of expensive proprietary nuts. If they cared, they could use loctite or lock washers.

It seems there's very little money in fixing spun holds.



Climbing gyms change their "routes" pretty frequently, so I don't think they would use locktite.


Why? Loctite Blue is meant to be disassembled and reassembled: http://www.loctiteproducts.com/p/t_lkr_blue/overview/Loctite...

Gyms clearly don't use loctite, but I think it's just because the problem doesn't warrant the slight increase in mess and hassle.


Ah, okay. I thought locktite was only a "mostly permanent" adhesive. Thanks for the info!


You get different grades of Loctite. Climbing walls don't get that much vibration but a thread-locking product would provide some reassurance.




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