Originally Posted By: ArcticDriver
Originally Posted By: Ducked
Usually none. Can't get it here.
I use various improvised substitutes like PTFE or polythene film, wax, grease, aluminium foil, or a rub with an old tyre weight, depending on the application.
I have a very small and locally irreplacable tube of Permatex Silver that I use very sparingly on critical applications like brake sliders.
Taiwan is surrounded by ocean. Are you sure you can't get a "marine" grade at a boating supply?
Extraordinary.
Why would it not be available?
Never heard of Marine grade antiseize, though I daresay it exists. Don't quite get the "If you can't find something that should be common, look for something that should be rather obscure" strategy.
Anyway, it isn't just me. That could just be a lack of language and contacts. British mechanic that runs a car-sourcing business here told me he had to import it specially and the importer told him he was the only user he was aware of in Taiwan. Special brake greases likewise.
Its unsurprising it isn't available in DIY consumer quantities since there are no DIY consumers, (There's very little "boating" either, since it was illegal until fairly recently) but the above suggests the pro's don't use it either, which would be surprising if you'd never encountered a Taiwanese mechanic.
However, I did track down a rather rusty 1kg tin (which may be the only one in Taiwan), but I didn't buy it since I'd got pretty comfortable with the improvisations by then and it would have lasted me until the heat death of the universe.
Why? um..a certain lack of..er..professionalism, I suppose.