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derefrtoday at 1:43 PM1 replyview on HN

The trade-off being (I'm guessing) that those threads would be pretty easy to re-tap by hand?


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dnemmerstoday at 1:59 PM

I think the usual move once threads are gone, is to move to a steel threaded insert (helicoil, time-sert, etc)

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/thread-repair-inserts/thre...