<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks to all. Heli-coil sounds like the way to go. I should have stated that the bolt is for a tow hook eye. Sorry if I got some scratching their heads!<br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 5, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Richard Ewald <<a href="mailto:richard.ewald@gmail.com" class="">richard.ewald@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Any good mechanical thread repair method will result in a stronger female thread that the standard hole. The Heli-coil rep used to do a demo with a sheet of aluminum and a grade 8 bolt. He would screw the bolt in the hole, and strip the threads. He would then install a heli-coil and screw the same bolt in and proceed to break the grade 8 bolts and the new larger diameter thread of the thread repair was stronger than the original bolt. <div class="">My advise is get a good thread repair kit (heli-coil, time sert, etc) and repair the hole, no need to weld it first.</div><div class="">Rick</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:46 AM, R. Price Lindsay <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:050.rpl@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">050.rpl@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">I have stripped a non-essential bolt in the frame and want to replace it on my BJ8. I really don’t want to drill it out, re-tap it and use a larger bolt for visual reasons. I don’t have access to a welding machine (probably a good thing). Is there a way to re-fill the hole and tap it to the correct size? There could be a lot of stress on the bolt.<br class=""><div class="">
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