In-frame welded nut gone...

[Schrade]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v7q4OmlYH1U/U1bUUU3X7RE/AAAAAAAAD4w/mU_35xEfWrg/s1152-c/April222014.jpg

What are the options here?

Lag screw? Open a keyhole saw access hole in the side, to hold a nut? (the latter has little appeal, for more reasons than just one).

In theory, a perfectly round hole doesn't weaken the material, but in practice, well ... practice and theory sometimes don't go one hand in the other...

Ideas here?

[We Gone]

See if you can find a nutsert that will fit the hole. Many options.

http://avdelusallc.com/products/nutsert.shtml

https://www.google.com/#q=nutsert

[Schrade]

Nut insert would probably work there Steve, but the reeding might not get THIS job done...

I'm already on it here. Y'all gettin' ready to see some brains in action ;) (and never mind who I'm borrowin' the brains from :p ).

[Schrade]

Wire...

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-mlYzYwWatQo/U30VyiHR6aI/AAAAAAAAEQU/wFfUytfNDzk/s1024/IMG_6528.JPG

30 lb fishing line

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X2CFQxILYeE/U30WQztliJI/AAAAAAAAEQg/CbuDZoxcwXg/s1024/IMG_6530.JPG

[Schrade]

Oh yeah - you squared out the hole, with a 3-sided file / rasp. Never mind that it's not square - THAT works out even better, as you'll see below here.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-WZGzrW6il5U/U30fCBycgMI/AAAAAAAAERE/h23P-gF66es/s1024/IMG_6531.JPG

...to put in a carriage bolt:

https://shop.pontoons.com/_asset/hgttrj/xlarge/1BOL93010.jpg

...before you pulled it through

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-LngXlC7xjIU/U30eLQ7S7cI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/oaIe6RshKnU/s1024/IMG_6532.JPG

Then get a nut on it, and run the nut down to lock the square into the [out-of-perfect] square hole.

http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10404/p0311.gif

[Franke]

American ingenuity at work. :)

[We Gone]

Now that's a very inventive fix.