Howdy gents and hopefully ladies.
I usually use hornady dies for most of my loading, but sometimes the only cost acceptable option is lee. I do like lee dies except for one detail. On the bullet seating die, the top adjustment that threads in and out to control the depth of bullet seating, these are always very loosely threaded. Like so loose that they can move with only a bump to the adjuster. I need to tighten this up, or if that doesn't make sense, I need to be able to make it harder to screw in and out.
I have tried teflon tape on the threads. It worked okay for about a month and then as you would expect the tape moved with the use of the bullet seater being moved up and down.
I'm not mechanically gifted. So I don't know many tricks to working with threaded parts. Is there a tip that anyone has to get these threads to have just a little more tightness to them?
I thought about a dab of blue loctite, but my gut tells me no.
Is there some sort of grease that would make it just a bit harder to adjust?
I feel like this is one of those things where there are a thousand machinist out there who would say "yerp, just put a dab of XYZ on it and yer back in business"