Dr_Jekyll & Mr_Hyde Estate Project

[dr_jekyll]

Right so after realising i messed that spacer up the other night ive decided to do the cheap skate option and re-drill and tap the holes. Was a pretty clear cut choice, £15 tap vs £130 spacers.
Easiest way to rework them was to follow the original 10.75mm holes from the back (m12x1.25 tapping drill) so first had to grind the studs off to fit the spacer into a machine vice.
After that chucked them in the machine vice and centered the 10.75mm upto the back of the original hole and used it as a guide hole to dimple the back of the studs. Im able to do this as the 30mm spacers have only been tapped 15mm deep leaving 15mm of the original 10.75 mm hole. This will come into play later as i can cut the thread deeper.

Ok so once i had dimpled the backs of the studs i used that as a center point to send a pilot drill through.

Once piloted i sent the 10.75 through to drill the stud out. After this i needed to face off the welds in the lathe.

Decided it was nessacary to take a 0.3mm skim off the face of the spacer to clean it up. To finish it off ive used a 12mm drill bit to make a light chamfer in the top to help guide the tap. Just need to order myself a m12x1.25 tap now. Will clean the orignal thread as much as i can as well as take the thread deeper and run longer studs to regain as much strentgh as i can on the original damaged threads

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