TreaderSteve
Senior Retro Guru
To quote my father (RIP - his favourite swear-passage) $hit bu@@er @rsehole pi$$ coc% f@rt - the R/H thumbie has a stripped thread - the one that holds it onto the bars.
The pair weren't an Ebay buy, I'll say no more. I don't think the sale was deceiving though, but a repair was done with a product of some sort or another (liquid metal I'm guessing) - which hasn't worked. I was only trying to fit new black ally bolts and not even clamp onto bars yet so it wasn't me!
Might anyone have a decent mount hanging about please? A long shot I know - I'm probably going to have to spend again - just to get the desirable R/H thumbie.
I've looked into helicoils etc, I've used them before on the car, but I'm pretty sure it's not possible as the clamp is in the way - there's no access onto the 'face' of the area that needs the helicoil so can't use a bigger and required drill without jiggering the outer clamp part.
Any bright ideas please (that would last)?
I could tap-out to M6, but an M6 allen head doesn't fit the recess on the clamp so I don't think that's a goer.
Any ideas gratefully received if I can save the one I have!
The pair weren't an Ebay buy, I'll say no more. I don't think the sale was deceiving though, but a repair was done with a product of some sort or another (liquid metal I'm guessing) - which hasn't worked. I was only trying to fit new black ally bolts and not even clamp onto bars yet so it wasn't me!
Might anyone have a decent mount hanging about please? A long shot I know - I'm probably going to have to spend again - just to get the desirable R/H thumbie.
I've looked into helicoils etc, I've used them before on the car, but I'm pretty sure it's not possible as the clamp is in the way - there's no access onto the 'face' of the area that needs the helicoil so can't use a bigger and required drill without jiggering the outer clamp part.
Any bright ideas please (that would last)?
I could tap-out to M6, but an M6 allen head doesn't fit the recess on the clamp so I don't think that's a goer.
Any ideas gratefully received if I can save the one I have!
