Postby YamahaPlayer » Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:34 am
You prob want to let them sit in mineral oil instead, it's an effective cleaner that is very safe for the chrome and metal coatings. Don't forget to soak the receivers too - that's most likely where most the dirt build up is. Pain in the butt to remove every lug, but worth it every so often.
I would not recommend using any form of loktite, thread lock, plumbers tape, etc, etc that's just a whole world of trouble waiting to happen. If you are experiencing issues with de-tuning there are a couple things out to help, the tuning locks for instance. Plastic thingies that clip onto the lug head and hold it against the rim, check on drummaker.com or such. Putting any form of lubricant and then loktite is pretty contradiction to what the intended purpose of each is.
Just a drop of any quality, thin, machine oil should be fine for the tension rods. I use Hoppes gun oil, but partially because I already have it for it's intended use.