It happens that the thread is damaged by disassembling the blocked bolt. In most cases, it is relatively easy to recover the full functionality of the connection. The approach to repair depends on many factors: location, degree of damage, size, weldability of the material, etc. Apart from the cost and time of reconstruction, all these factors must be taken into account when choosing the method of repair. We have recently been asked to reproduce the functionality of a threaded hole in the steam turbine body. In order to avoid mistakes in the future, the customer decided to keep the current thread size – hence the sleeve was selected as the […]