Threaded File for thread fixing.

[MrSony]

ANyone know of a place (preferrably in real life, don't have too much time to order online) that sells this damn thing? I need to fix the threads on my Thunderbird's upper control arm shaft. Ive been to Home depot, menards, sears, no place has them. Would auto[parts stores carry them?

 

[ssn696]

Do you know the thread size?

 

[Ribbedroof]

Snap-on https://store.snapon.com/THREAD-RESTORING-C629043.aspx

Matco https://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/TR1A/THREAD-RESTORING-FILE/

http://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/TR3A/thread-restoring-file/

https://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/TRM8A/THREAD-RESTORING-FILES/

Fastenal? https://www.fastenal.com/products/details/0817960

NAPA http://www.napaonline.com/napa/en/p/SER2249

If you have another parts store that sells gearwrench, #2249 is for SAE threads

 

[ssn696]

Nicholson Apex 33001. Welding Supply house?

 

[Jimmy]

Autozone shows they loan them out. If you know the thread size a dye set would work. Harbor freight has sets fairly cheap. Don't know if that helps.

 

[MrSony]

Snap-on https://store.snapon.com/THREAD-RESTORING-C629043.aspx

Matco https://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/TR1A/THREAD-RESTORING-FILE/

http://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/TR3A/thread-restoring-file/

https://www.matcotools.com/catalog/product/TRM8A/THREAD-RESTORING-FILES/

Fastenal? https://www.fastenal.com/products/details/0817960

NAPA http://www.napaonline.com/napa/en/p/SER2249

If you have another parts store that sells gearwrench, #2249 is for SAE threads

I greatly appreciate the effort, but most of these are either out of stock or don't directly distribute to des moines. I wonder if one of them universal thread chasers that look like a c clamp would work. The threads are still there, it's just at the very end where the nut goes on the control arm shaft they got dicked up a little and the nut won't go on. I imagine a die would work, providing the dicked up part was further down and not at the first few threads.

 

[ssn696]

Could you find a small trianglular file and carefully clean up the end threads? I have one that is about 1/4" on a side and works well for delicate jobs like that.

 

[Ribbedroof]

You're telling me there are no Snap-on or Matco dealers in Des Moines?

What parts houses do you have? O'Reilly should be able to get it from the warehouse in a day or less. http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/d...Search_thread+file_-1_342&keyword=thread+file

I was through there visiting family two weeks ago, seemed to me like a typical medium/large city. Never seen a tool truck guy that wouldn't sell to a person with money.

Menard's has to be the most illogically laid-out store I've ever been in...maybe it is just the Cedar Falls store, though.

Or, a file will work if needed RIGHT NOW.

You know what they say, fail to plan, plan to fail.

 

[MrSony]

After 8 stores and two days I found it at my local Ace Hardware after being reffered there by at guy at Northern Tool here in Des Moines. Fixed the damaged threads of my upper control arm shaft thing in a jiffy.

 

[Rick_B_86]

I've used those types at work before, and I have always just found it easier using a regular triangle file.