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Old 29-07-24, 04:24
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I managed to drill out all of the broken M6 bolts and tapped new threads to accept the heli-coils,

This was a long and tricky job.. the Mag drill did the job well.. I bought a cheap Mag drill on Epay but it worked out OK .

The original little M6 bolts have oversized heads .. for 3/16" BSW size spanners . I will buy some 8mm bolts and machine them down to M6 and rethread them. This sounds crazy but the larger heads are needed to seal the gasket .

Morris inherited Metric tooling when they took over the WW1 era Hotchkiss factory , the Morris oversized metric bolt heads were made to suit the common U.K. Whitworth spanners.
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