Jonny69
Senior Retro Guru
Here's what my bike looks like naked!
This is what I did at lunchtime. Those 4 bolt heads below used to be 8mm plain holes. I drilled and tapped them them to take an M10 helicoil insert to make it easier to take the box and/or baseplate on and off. I won't show a pic of my Helicoil insertion effort, ashamed to say I only got one of them right. I tried to judge getting two short inserts one on top of another. Got one spot on, two of them proud and one a bit too deep. Probably won't actually affect function but I'm not happy with them so I'll take them all out and re-do them, probably with correct length inserts to start with...
This is what I did at lunchtime. Those 4 bolt heads below used to be 8mm plain holes. I drilled and tapped them them to take an M10 helicoil insert to make it easier to take the box and/or baseplate on and off. I won't show a pic of my Helicoil insertion effort, ashamed to say I only got one of them right. I tried to judge getting two short inserts one on top of another. Got one spot on, two of them proud and one a bit too deep. Probably won't actually affect function but I'm not happy with them so I'll take them all out and re-do them, probably with correct length inserts to start with...
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