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Old 06-04-07 | 02:41 PM
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HillRider
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Bikes: '96 Litespeed Catalyst, '05 Litespeed Firenze, '06 Litespeed Tuscany, '20 Surly Midnight Special, All are 3x10. It is hilly around here!

I wonder if there is enough metal around the stripped hole to allow drilling and tapping it oversize for a helicoil. A lot of the threadless stems I'm familiar with don't have a lot of "meat" around the bolt holes.

If the bolt isn't threaded into a "blind" hole but the stripped hole is drilled all the way through you could drill out the hole to a clearance size for the bolt (usually 5 mm so a 7/32" drill bit will work) and then use a longer bolt and nut.
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