When I purchased my trainer I ordered a whole list of things to put it together, one of those things being [link=http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXK306]thread locker.[/link]

Well, for some reason, when I was assembling the ARF, either because I forgot or felt it really wasn't necessary I skipped using the stuff.

Boy am I sorry now. My nose gear bearing bolts came loose a few weeks ago, and even though I have the thread locker in the flight box, I figured I'd be okay replacing the steel cheapy screws that came with the nose gear with black cap screws someone had at the field, tightened down securely.

Guess what? Yesterday after I was done flying and was cleaning the plane, I see one of the four caps crews almost completely unscrewed and another one loose! I tightened them down, again, forgetting to use the thread locker.

Prior to that, when pulling the wing off, I noticed one of the servos had two screws missing, both on the same side! Boy was I lucky nothing happened during the flight! I found one of the screws loose in the bottom of the fuse but have no idea where the second one went. I just came back from the LHS and have a bag of servo screws and brass grommets. This weekend I'm going to take the plane down to the shop and remove all the screws in the plane and apply thread locker before I screw them back in place.

Just a friendly reminder to all to not make my mistakes and use the stuff! It's still amazing to me how the vibration from the engine can actually unscrew a long screw over a relatively short amount of time!