Re: [CR]tapping shifter braze-on on 1953 Claud Butler?

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 21:18:27 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
To: CR List <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]tapping shifter braze-on on 1953 Claud Butler?
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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