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Machinefags, what is the best method for making sure female threads are clean and free of anti-sieze compound or loctite? I don't think any of the threads I'm dealing with have been damaged at all so I don't know if sending a tap through them is necessary, but is that a solid solution? I also thought about brushing them with a bore brush using a light solvent and then blowing/vacuuming them out.

Machinefags, what is the best method for making sure female threads are clean and free of anti-sieze compound or loctite? I don't think any of the threads I'm dealing with have been damaged at all so I don't know if sending a tap through them is necessary, but is that a solid solution? I also thought about brushing them with a bore brush using a light solvent and then blowing/vacuuming them out.

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Conglomerate of comments are the way to go, thread chaser, wire brush, acetone. One exception is Ive never heated to remove loctite but I worked a furnace so heating to remove loctite was never a concern. A good pen oil like liquid wrench w/ a thread chaser after a good wire brush acetone clean will fix any female thread that can be fixed that I've met. That said you can certainly make fucked threads work with enough torque and stupidity.