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Dannywhac:
As per title - any of you fellas re-tap stuff? I've got an axle here that needs a tiny bit of fettling as a real small amount of the top thread on a female axle is a bit rough.

Cheers  :daumenhoch:

Jaymz:
What size thread my good man, some axels are shlts as they have really fine thread that's shallow, almost like an automotive thread, taps are damn expensive for them

oldschoolace:
You could try some needle files. As Jaymz says, some taps/dies can be proper expensuve

Jaymz:

--- Quote from: oldschoolace on December 07, 2014, 08:41 PM ---You could try some needle files. As Jaymz says, some taps can be proper expensuve

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that's what I ended up doing clint. Bought a set of wheels locally cheap, thought there was some profit in them, female axels, went to put the bolts in the one and thread was fooked, searched for two hours in our old a,chime shop through boxes to no avail, couldn't even work out what thread it was, didn't match fook all I had, high tpi, shallow cut, steep pitch,

Dannywhac:
Cheers for the replies lads  :daumenhoch:

It'll be a standard metric thread 1.0mm non-tapered - think it's an M10. It's off a G-Sport Fat Shaft MK1 hub, so George will have done em so's you could pop to a bolt shop and easily buy new ones.

 :LolLolLolLol: Already broken the tip off two needle files trying to sort the fooker.

Here's the bolt that no longer goes in:


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