I have a general comment on oiling vs dry vs loctite ect
Some people do a little bolted joint reading and decide that if oiled studs are good enough for mounting turbines, it must be good enough for mounting scopes. That's a big piece of steel foot, mounted to a steel base, with a hardened steel stud and hardened steel nuts, torqued with hydraulic stud tensioners. You need lubricated threads for a few reasons here, and the stud tension is so tremendous when torqued up that nothing is going to move, oiled or not. We use 15w40 motor oil on stuff like that. There's basically no parallels between machinery joints and scope mounting.
Form is correct in his statement that oil helps things get loose in this application. With scope mounting, we are always using small steel screws, often into stainless steel or aluminum. The general principals of bolted joints for machinery don't apply here and having some glue on everything instead of lubricant is going to give much stronger joints. The clamp loads are small, the impulse loading can be relatively large under recoil or impacts. The screws are never going to be properly stretched because of their size and the materials involved. The bonding compounds become a major component of the joint. Oil on any mating surfaces and any threads is subtracting from the total strength of the system.
Its also important to add that with a "bolted joint," the bolt is basically a spring squeezing the parts together, and friction between the parts is what keeps them from slipping. The bolt is not meant to take any shear load, that is what pins or fitted bolts do. Since these dinky little screws can't give much clamp load, you need to dramatically increase the friction to keep things from moving. Thats what your bonding compound is doing for you.