Case repair suggestions

[GeorgiaVol]

I have a old saw I am looking to work on soon. Looks great, but has one bad spot. One of the screw holes that hold the top cover on has been stripped, drilled over sized then that has worn out too. It's a mag case saw and was wondering what would be a good way to repair this? Would it work to fill the cavity with JB Weld then drill and tap for the top cover screw? Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[a. palmer jr.]

I don't think there's a whole lot of pressure on that screw so I don't know any reason you couldn't JB it. Another fix, if there's enough meat there would be to drill and tap it out even bigger and put a big bolt in it and drill and tap the bolt. Where yours is though you can get by with the JB Weld I would think.

 

[Ted Jenkins]

I tried to weld up several cases, but to no avail. Several times I have fitted a reinforcing piece of aluminum with JB weld and seems to be stronger that anything else. Thanks

 

[Little Al]

I have had success with the inserts that screw into wood as they have a coarse thread & a sort of a socket head that you can use to gently tap in the case the centre is tapped to take a bolt, a dab of epoxy on the outer thread, will hold the insert in position on removing refitting the fastening

 

[blsnelling]

I would jbweld a steel thread insert in there.

 

[GeorgiaVol]

I looked up the thread inserts and now I think that is what came out of the hole. I think JB Welding one back in might just work. Thanks for the ideas