If you have a torque wrench, use the damn torque wrench!
I'm going to print that out and tape it to the handle of every one of my hex wrenches bigger than 5mm. I was installing a rear brake on my P3 this afternoon and got a little carried away with the bolt that fixes the brake mounting plate (or whatever that thing is called) into the frame. Sure enough, the bolt started slipping and when I backed it out, I saw fragments of what looked like a helical insert coming out with it. Now the bolt is quite loose even when screwed in all the way and it no longer holds the plate, and therefore the brake, tightly against the frame.
I had a few minutes of panic where I thought I had just totaled my frame less than four weeks out from my last big race of the season, but now I'm grasping a little ray of hope that I might just have to rethread the hole somehow. I'm not sure how to do this, though, and I can't take it to a professional because I don't know anyone in South Korea who I would trust to know anything about rethreading a hole in a carbon time trial frame, and I don't have enough time to send it to Calfee. If the frame is well and truly broken beyond repair, I'll have to ride a road bike for my upcoming 70.3, but I would really rather get this fixed! Can anyone help me out?
I'm going to print that out and tape it to the handle of every one of my hex wrenches bigger than 5mm. I was installing a rear brake on my P3 this afternoon and got a little carried away with the bolt that fixes the brake mounting plate (or whatever that thing is called) into the frame. Sure enough, the bolt started slipping and when I backed it out, I saw fragments of what looked like a helical insert coming out with it. Now the bolt is quite loose even when screwed in all the way and it no longer holds the plate, and therefore the brake, tightly against the frame.
I had a few minutes of panic where I thought I had just totaled my frame less than four weeks out from my last big race of the season, but now I'm grasping a little ray of hope that I might just have to rethread the hole somehow. I'm not sure how to do this, though, and I can't take it to a professional because I don't know anyone in South Korea who I would trust to know anything about rethreading a hole in a carbon time trial frame, and I don't have enough time to send it to Calfee. If the frame is well and truly broken beyond repair, I'll have to ride a road bike for my upcoming 70.3, but I would really rather get this fixed! Can anyone help me out?