Stripped Post Mount threads!
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Got a small problem due to the lack of morning coffe! Was changing brakepads yadayadayada, long story short. I was stupid and tired enough to make an dumb thing and took the wrong screw (lucky me i guess) and stripped a bit of the threads in my fork :oops: It's just a couple of turns in the begining and im wondering if it's even worth to helicoil it or just run it as it is! With a longer screw i get a good 10-11 turns of threads before it bottoms out! It's about 13 turns in a undamaged hole so it's just like 2-3 threads in the begining that is gone! It's also the top caliper mount where the force of braking pushes the caliper against the fork so aslong as i dont brake when going backwards in high speed (something i dont do that often..) I guess it will be okay?
If the english aint that good my excuse is that i'm from Sweden!
If the english aint that good my excuse is that i'm from Sweden!
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Sounds like plenty of thread left over.I don't do smileys.
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Sweet! I looked around in the fox tech manual and found some useful info! 10-12mm is the minimum insertion so i guess it's all good! Some carefull tightening and a bit of extra loctite in the future! Thanks for calming my nerves! If it fails in the future a helicoil dont cost that much!0
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As a general rule of thumb, use a depth of 1.5xbolt diameter minimum.
Eg: standard M4 x 0.7 would need 4 x 1.5 = 6mm insertion, or (6/0.7 8.5 turns, but that's playing safe.
Under tension a bolt won't do anything beyond around 6 turns.
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