Note the word NOT added below.

There are also various grades of stainless fasteners available. Nickel based
anti seizes work better on stainless fasteners.

Dennis

>From: David Etter <detter@mail.auracom.com>
>To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: Source for Stainless Exhaust Hardware?
>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:30:16 -0600
>
>Hello Dennis:
>
>       I am not exactly sure which is the best way to go, the sentence.....
>
>>"Stainless nuts on regular steel studs do NOT have this problem but
>>whenever stainless studs and nuts are used, beware.".
>
>has left me confused. Is stainless on stainless as bad as stainless on
>steel or is it worse? And what kind of anti-seize would you recommend? I
>have a copper based cmpd; is that OK?
>       Should I remove the steel studs and replace them with SS or something even
>better?
>What about grade 8  or higher studs?
>
>Thank you for any help in this as I had hoped to reinstall my exhaust
>system this week-end.
>
>Regards!
>                                       David  (dsl82westy)
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>>One thing about stainless fasteners, actually two things:
>>yes they stretch under load so proper torque is essential. Torque,
>>operated
>>to heat things up and retorque. Otherwise you get to watch stuff fall off.
>>
>>Anti Seize, good anti Seize is a must.  Other wise, while torqueing the
>>threads will gall. While this may help the loosening problem, it can make
>>removal down right impossible. Stainless nuts on regular steel studs do
>>have
>>this problem but whenever stainless studs and nuts are used, beware.
>>
>>Dennis
>>