LOCTITE retaining compounds are high-performance adhesives designed to secure cylindrical components such as bearings, shafts, bushes, sleeves, and gears. They fill gaps between mating metal surfaces to provide strong, reliable bonding, helping prevent loosening, fretting, and corrosion. Ideal for industrial assembly, machinery maintenance, and equipment repair, LOCTITE retaining compounds offer dependable performance and improved load distribution compared with conventional press-fit assemblies.

Bearings & Bushings

Shafts & Sleeves

Gears & Pulleys

Eliminates rotational spin-out and fretting wear in cylindrical housing fits, restoring concentricity and stability under heavy dynamic loads.

Achieves uniform stress distribution along cylindrical mating interfaces, replacing keyways and eliminating expensive high-precision machining tolerances on factory equipment.

Transmits maximum rotational torque without backlash or slippage, protecting drive components and keyways from catastrophic cyclic fatigue failure.