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Old 02-10-2015 | 05:37 PM
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newflier1
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Thank Robert. That is a great way to do it. I wish I had thought of that yesterday. Well it turned out that the blind nut had poor threading and I basically just turned the blind nut out of the wood. So here is what I did. I cut the bolt and was easily able to get the blind nut and what was left of the bolt shaft out of the fuse. I then made out of thin maple plywood a 5/8 x 5/8 square and put an mounted a new blind nut onto that square. I then made a handle out of thin copper wire to act as a cradle. I used a push rod and taped my cradle to the end of the push rod. I inserted it into the fuse down to the tail area and with the aide of a light I then used another push rod and through the hole in the bottom of the fuse I lined up the hole in the blind nut to the push rod. This was not an easy task. Once I was able to do that I then put 30 minute epoxy carefully on the bottom of the maple plywood and repeated what I just stated. Once I got the push rod through the blind nut hole from the bottom of the fuse, I then pulled the long push rod so my tape would come off and now the assembly just dropped to the bottom of the inside of the fuse with the blind nut lined up with the pre driilled hole. Right now my epoxy is drying, SO if my idea works, the epoxy should harden and the blind nut should be lined up - I just have to take the tape off the push rod that is lining everything up and insert my bolt and I should be good to go. Talk about explaining that - but I truly like your idea way better - its just that I know I messed up the wood inside so I figured I would be better off trying to put in a whole new piece of ply. I took some pictures of my assembly, if my idea works I will post.