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Re: The wheel is back, with out the bolt :-)

>>believe the process is called EDM. And it cost
>> me $30 buck to save a $400 wheel.

Also known as "spark erosion".
I used it to rescue a GSX1100 cylinder head after some of the cam cap bolts
broke.

>>I tried test fitting one of the bolts into the
>> wheel. Got it jammed in there

You may have been better off using a thread tap first. This may have
cleared the powder coating off the thread without jamming it.

Darren Mason.
2000 ST.
Melbourne, AuSTralia.



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