But for the love of Orville, paint the top of the sonofoabitch red or
somebody will try and use it in an airplane as a spark plug. GUARANTEED.

I've got two of them around here. One with a narrow slot for fairly clean
helicoils and one with a Tijuana whore's slot for absolutely filthy
helicoils.

Toecutter's comment about grease in the slot is right on. However, wipe the
helicoil out after you do the cleaning or the grease will stick the next
plug tighter than Tilly's titty.

I switched from the graphite thread lube to the copper loaded stuff and have
found an absolute order of magnitude of ease of removal. Any other
comments?


Jim



"Orval Fairbairn" wrote in message
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On 25 Sep 2005 19:26:01 -0700, "nrp" wrote:
Champion useta sell a thread chaser for this purpose. Looked a lot
like a spark plug, had cut-outs in the threads to catch the crud. SOP
was stick a finger full of grease into the cut-outs to help it
"stick".

TC


I don't see why you couldn't make a chaser out of an old plug, using a
Moto Tool to cut the tapping slots.