Anti-seize for threaded BBs?

At risk of repeating myself……

Just buy some ceramic anti seize, it doesn’t suffer from galvanic weirdness, it can magically fill fairly large voids/threads, is heat resistant, is cheap because it’s for automotive use rather than cycling is the new golf charge 10x more for a tiny little tube and best of all the description uses the term nano.

Anything that isn’t branded as cycle specific. So a scoop from the tubs of grease kicking around the shed. Kept me going for 45 years and I suspect bikes in general for another century on top of that.

I wouldn’t say there is a huge difference in cost bike vs car non-copper anti-seize.

e.g. the Shimano stuff is pretty reasonable at £20 for a 455g tub with a brush in the lid (which makes it very convenient to use) and 100g tubes of various bike or car stuff is generally £5-10.

For those saying there is no galvanic issue, Molyslip (makers of Copaslip) specifically make Alumslip to avoid using copper in joints involving aluminium and steel. In practice you won’t see a seizing problem as the galvanic issue eats the aluminium……

Slightly different circumstances, but here is my steerer starting to get galvanically eaten in 2-3 years  due to the presence of steel, aluminium, water and copper.

For those saying there is no galvanic issue…snip

I don’t think that anyone is saying that. IME of both steel and aluminium frames, with components in a variety of materials, copper grease doesn’t cause a noticeable problem. I don’t own a carbon frame so can’t comment on that

Molyslip (makers of Copaslip) specifically make Alumslip to avoid using copper in joints involving aluminium and steel.

I’m all for a one-pot solution. When my 1.1lb (500 new-fangled grams) tub of copper grease runs out then I’ll buy ceramic, as recommended by RNP ^^

In practice you won’t see a seizing problem as the galvanic issue eats the aluminium……

IME, no visible damage to threads, etc. Just clean the old copper grease out and replace once or twice a year

Slightly different circumstances, but here is my steerer starting to get galvanically eaten in 2-3 years due to the presence of steel, aluminium, water and copper.

The key ingredient here is water, which is the electrolyte that allowed galvanic corrosion to take place. Grease will keep it out

I am a liberal user of copaslip and have never seen galvanic corrosion.  I use grease on stuff that is taken out often, copaslip on stuff that is dismantled rarely and locktite very occasionally on critical bolts.  Many times I thank the great god copaslip when  for example a disc bolt comes out nice and easily