TECHNOLOGY IN ACTION ADVERTORIAL LOCTITE® products prove winners at racing snowmobile specialist
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lthough LOCTITE® threadlocking adhesives and retaining compounds are industry-proven over many decades, there remain some engineers who are
either unaware of the products, or lack the necessary confidence to apply them to their assemblies. However, the use of LOCTITE® in extreme applications such as snowmobile racing demonstrates that, once applied and cured, these products remain secure for the lifetime of the equipment, no matter how tough the operating environment.
Competitive snowmobilers, Snocross racers and XGames athletes have come to rely on snowmobiles from Polaris Industries to help them dominate in extreme racing, long-distance jumping and freestyle competitions that involve dangerous backflips and extensions. As a result, the engineers who build the sleds used for these sports must be sure they will function reliably under severe conditions. This is why Polaris engineers trust LOCTITE® threadlockers and retaining compounds to ensure the safety of the sleds and eliminate any risk of assembly failure.
LOCTITE® threadlockers are used on all threaded fasteners throughout
Polaris snowmobiles, eliminating any possibility of loosening under vibration. At critical interfaces such as engine mounts, these adhesives permanently secure the threaded fasteners that attach the engine to the chassis. Failure here could mean disaster.
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Interference fits between cylindrical parts are equally important in snowmobiles. Here, retaining compounds – liquid anaerobic structural adhesives that cure or polymerise when confined without air between close- fitting metal surfaces – enable engineers to design robust, lightweight interference-fit joints at a lower cost than traditional interference fits by reducing the required dimensional precision. Additional benefits of retaining compounds include their potential to seal an assembly to prevent corrosion, as well as fill surface irregularities and clearance gaps between metal parts.
Pro Snocross racer and freestyle rider Levi LaVallee relies exclusively on
Polaris as his racing machine of choice. LaVallee holds nine Winter XGames medals, including six golds, and holds the world record for the 125.7 metre jump achieved on his snowmobile in 2010.
"The one thing that makes you feel good about doing crazy things like distance jumps and double back flips is knowing that, when Polaris is putting their sleds together, they're using LOCTITE®," says LaVallee.
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