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Stripped out threads in aluminum housing? Any suggestions?
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CAE
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August 28, 2014 - 1:15 pm
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Not really a DE38 specific question, but though I'd try the board since it's on my furler.
The two set screw holes in the aluminum housing of my furler are stripped out so that they no longer will tighten. The screws still go in, they just won't tighten up. As in they start spinning at the end.

Any ideas on how I may be able to salvage it? Like filling with job weld, drilling and tapping, etc? Or is there something that can be put on the threads?

Thanks

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August 28, 2014 - 3:59 pm
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Simplest thing to do is just tap the next larger size screw and of course get the next larger size set screw. If there isn't room for that, you can look in to "Key Inserts" but they also require some drilling out. JB weld also makes a product called "steel stick" that might work somewhat well, depending on how much material it has to stick to before it cures.

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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 🙂

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I'd first try tapping a larger hole.  That's my two cents.  Otherwise, I second Scot's opinion.

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All good suggestions. Thanks

I bought loctite product called "form a thread" and will give it a try in a few days and report back.

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