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Old 10-13-15 | 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by spdracr39
As a last ditch effort you could try running a course thread tap through it and use a matching bolt. The more aggressive course threads are a little larger and might hold but it might vibrate loose periodically and need retightening.
Not necessarily so. For the same major diameter a course thread uses a smaller tap drill diameter. So a stripped fine thread, in a hole, has less material the what the course tap wants. You are correct if the stripped part was a male threaded bolt though. Andy.
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