pmadrid13
Pebble Pounder
I have seen many pictures of plastic parts with brass inserts for 3mm screws, can someone point me to a supplier, I believe there was someone here selling them at one point but I can find it.
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brass threaded insert
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pmadrid13
Pebble Pounder
rockhugger
RCC Addict
I think D-lux sells them also.
Calderwood
I wanna be Dave
IMO heli-coils are better.
ROWDY RACING
I wanna be Dave
Do you have a part # for a heli coil that would work in the same application?
pmadrid13
Pebble Pounder
Do, they make a heli-coil that small?
M3, no problem. I have a kit and have installed dozens of them. I know that I've seen some M2 kits before, not sure if anything smaller exists.
pmadrid13
Pebble Pounder
I found some M3 kits on eBay, the kits are averaging $30 and twenty loose helicoils are around $16, more than twice the price of inserts, McMaster-Carr $11 for 50 pieces but they always get you with shipping so it kind of ends up the same. the advantage of the helicoils is that you don't need to drill a 4mm hole for the inserts, it only requires 3.1mm which helps if you have very little material around the hole.
pmadrid13
Pebble Pounder
here is the link to one of the kits that I found:
Helicoil Thread Repair Kit M3 x 0 5 Drill and Tap Insertion Tool | eBay
WOW, it's for real. Very cool. Expensive, but cool. It would work with some applications as long as the tap does not bottom out before it threads. I guess you could Dremel off some of the tip on the tap.
sickcivic95
Rock Crawler
They make taps for closed end holes called bottoming taps, it's basically just a flat ended tap so that it starts threading immediately unlike the pointed style. Something like this one:
Hand Sti Taps | MSCDirect.com
-Dan
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DeviousPixels
Newbie
E-Z Lok SK40210 Metric Helical Threaded Insert Kit, 304 Stainless Steel, M3-0.5 Thread Size, 3 mm Installed Length (Pack of 10): Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific
It's not brass, but I just picked these up to fix the mounts in my trans that ripped out. It also comes in different lengths depending on what you need.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=industrial&field-keywords=M3+Threaded+Insert
It's not brass, but I just picked these up to fix the mounts in my trans that ripped out. It also comes in different lengths depending on what you need.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=industrial&field-keywords=M3+Threaded+Insert
pmadrid13
Pebble Pounder
Found a MSC catalog in the office, I'm in TROUBLE!!!!
