Adrian - Loctite makes a stripped bolt hole repair material. It's called
"Form-A-Thread Stripped Thread Repair, Metal to Metal No. 81668". I used
it to repair a stripped hole in an aluminum manifold. So far, it's hanging
in there. You can find it at your local auto supply house.
Steve Byers
Havelock, NC
'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE"
"It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool,
than to speak, and remove all doubt." -- Mark Twain
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From: Adrian Jones <AdrianJones@compuserve.com>
To: MG <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Stripped Alloy Bolt Hole
Date: Monday, October 27, 1997 10:02 PM
Greetings All,
Sadness reigns in the Jones household. Your humble servant was on his
back, just tightening up one of the last bolts holding on the oil pan,
when the grim realisation struck his numbed brain that the bolt hole was
stripped. The first clue was that the socket wrench could be spun round
for several hundred revolutions without any apparent tightening. Secondly,
when the bolt was removed," luvely" little shiny ribbons of alloy material
accompanied it.
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