Awoken at 4am by a grenade.....?

[Egon_247]

So there I am, in my tellytubbies pyjamas, asleep in my bed when at 4am I'm woken up by a sharp loud hiss noise.

My brain went "that was a mag vent noise".

Out of bed, had a look at the mag rack, nope, all is well. Ah, probably just my brain reacting to that cheese from under the fridge that I ate.

Back to sleep.

Only, I'm getting my gear ready for tomorrow and check my storm 360 grenade is all good. Which it isn't. ?

It appears that the gas inlet valve has had enough and has bailed out of the grenade in a very grenadey way. 

I cant find it, I was half expecting it to be embedded in the cieling ???

The threads have stripped and left a very clean exit hole ??

Damn. Not sure araldite is man enough for it....

Any suggestions? 

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[gavinkempsell]

Horlicks?

 

[Egon_247]

Horlicks?

I said something very similar to that...?

Even the dog looked at me, like "wtf was that" ??

 

[Tackle]

Helicoil it ?, & if the fit feels good then secure with a 2 part adhesive, maybe even JB weld.

 

[Shamal]

Can you still get them?

I've used them many years ago to repair cylinder head spark plug holes when the thread has been stripped, especially on ally heads.

 

[Tackle]

You can still get them, but the thread size might be an issue ?.

 

[Shamal]

They used to come in a kit of various sizes 5,6,8,10 and 12mm with tap and drills.

 

[Egon_247]

I think the thread is the important bit. It's v small, in a fine pitched m6 kinda size. I thought the gas valves were imperial (may be lack of sleep doing that though ?)

I'm trying araldite just in case, you never know .. ?

Failing that, I'll plug the hole and drill n tap a new one, if I can figure out the pitch/sizes.

 

[Egon_247]

Well, technical update, the araldite had a good 48h to go off and it got a lung full of red gas, seems to be holding sweet. 

Seems i underestimated araldite...  

Cleaned, ready for some underarm lobbage action... GRENAAAAADAAAAA....