On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 06:15:20PM -0600, nicholas harteau wrote:
>
> I can't even believe it. I was tapping some threads into what basically
> amounts to aluminum stock (an aftermarket upper tailgate for my truck)
> and I broke the lovely tap off inside the pillar!
>
> Not only that, it's a brand new tap.
>
> The break is on a pretty extreme angle.
>
> I have no idea how to get this out besides take it to a machine shop and
> pray. Any ideas?
Put a steel nut with the appropriate sized hole over the hole
in the aluminum, and use a mig welder weld the nut to the end
of the tap.
I have not tried this one myself, but others have reported success with it.
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