Re: helicoil or similar for blind hole?

N8N wrote:

After reading the posts, I think that I will probably end up grinding
down an insert to work; I will probably only have 3 or 4 threads but
that should be good enough, there weren't that many to begin with.

To shorten a helicoil type insert simply chop off the unwanted length
from the coil with sidecutters. It takes half a second and works
fine.

--
John H
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