If you tighten a bolt too far or too often, it will pull part of the thread out from what you are tightening it into. The thread comes out within the thread of the bolt, and you’re left with no way of tightening the bolt. A Helicoil insert is a way of replacing that thread – and it’s really quite easy.
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A main stand gives up the ghost, leaving Hutch no choice but to get the heavy tools out. One removed broken stand By Hutch and Chelley After moving on a couple of bikes I
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Sometimes it isn’t having the right tools, but a logical mind working through the possibilities
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Transform your ignition! Of course it would be rather pleasant not to have to do this job, but as they say in the army… “if you can’t take a joke you shouldn’t have signed up!”
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