Stripped out threads in aluminum housing? Any suggestions? Sails and Rigging- Standing and Running Forums

What he said 🙂

tapping it to next largest size would be simplest, I would think.

The other options would be something like jbweld to fill and then re-drill and tap the original size..

I have also seen "aluminium brazing rods?" that would do the same thing. You use them with a small propane torch like you would use doing solder on copper pipe. Just fill the existing hole with brazing material and the drill and tap.

You could also probably use some sort of filled epoxy to make your own version of jbweld.

ok. here is a brazing wire on a quick search, durafix here, and AL3 brazing rods here at home depot, harbor freights version

here are manufactures of metal to metal epoxies  http://www.jbweld.com/, http://www.lepageproducts.com, http://www.polymericsystems.com/

let us know what you end up doing and how well it worked 🙂