Philcycles@aol.com wrote:
> Find your local British motorcycle shop and find out what the thread is. I'll
> bet it's cycle thread. Your big problem will finding a bottoming-or plug-tap
> but the shop might have one. Otherwise you might take a needle file, heat it
> and put a little hook on the end and use it to try to clean the threads out
> enough to thread the screw. I've done this but boy, it's a pain.
In a pinch you can grind a common tapered tap to make a functional bottoming tap. I have one I use explicitly for lever bosses.
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John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA