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by derefr 28 days ago
The trade-off being (I'm guessing) that those threads would be pretty easy to re-tap by hand?
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I think the usual move once threads are gone, is to move to a steel threaded insert (helicoil, time-sert, etc)

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/thread-repair-inserts/thre...

or go up a diameter if that's feasible.