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Old 03-20-2003, 09:08 AM
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I had this same problem a few years ago and was able to do something a little different. Loc-tite is pretty good, but the problem is that you are basically working with a limited amount of thread i.e., the brass winshield material where the holes are is likely about 1/16 of an inch thick, so the threads are very few. I used epoxy putty, sometimes called plumbers putty, which is a tube of grey and white material that looks like a tootsie roll. You cut a slice of the roll, kneed it in your fingers, and then stuff it into the hole. I shortened the bolt a little and slid the bolt through and threaded it into the hole with some pushing to form new threads, and did this until the bolt was all the way in and the epoxy started to ooze out. Within 30 minutes, the epoxy hardens and you can remove the screw and wing, use a razor to scape away the excess and then screw it back. You'll have to apply minimal torque on the screw because the newly formed threads will be weaker than loctite, but the difference is that you have threads formed all the way trhough the bore of the hole, which provides a solid foundation. Curious if anyone else had any luck using this method. The epoxy putty dries to an almost porcelin like matter, not as fragile but very brittle. Maybe someone can try mixing loc-tite into the putty while kneeding it and combine the binding properties of both materials.

Good luck.
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