I would prefer drilling out the stripped threads and treating the eyelet as non-threaded, and just run a longer bolt and a nylock nut (or regular nut with star washer) behind the eyelet. French bikes came with unthreaded eyelets. It's a non-issue.
I prefer this to drilling out and tapping to M6. Tapping to M6 is certainly doable, but it removes metal from the eyelet, potentially weakening it. Anton On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 4:24:59 PM UTC-5, dougP wrote: > > All of my racks are attached with a bolt long enough to go completely thru > the braze-on with enough extra thread to also run a nylok nut, which in > effect is a jam nut. On the lower drive side this usually requires a > button head (low profile) installed from the inside to clear the chain. A > bit of extra hardware, true, but I've never had a rack come loose either. > > For your current situation, I'd chase with the appropriate tap. If the > correct bolt has play, bump up a size. Yes, you'll have one odd-ball but > unless you frequently remove the rack it won't matter. In Europe I've > noticed lots of hybrid / city / utility bikes have visually larger barrels > that are presumably at least 6 mm bolts. > > dougP > > On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:28:28 PM UTC-8, Mobile Bill wrote: >> >> Hope y'all are getting some time off for riding. In the 70s here, but >> raining cats and dogs for two days, so working on my bikes and looking for >> the most practical, creative and immediate solution to a stripped braze-on >> on my Betty, unfortunately the BO to which the rear rack attaches. Don't >> know how it happened. Just noticed the rack was loose, and that I could >> tighten. The 5 mm screw was a little bunged, as well. Tried another screw >> and it gripped a little deeper, but eventually started spinning as well. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
