Carl Tedesco wrote:
4. For sections we wanted to separate we used twenty (20) 8-32 screws. We had a few screws strip in the thin 0.072" wall, so your method with inserts is appealing.
There are nice former type taps around for giving threads in thin material some flesh. The traveling tradesman I met at a friends hydraulics shop recently even had a range of no predrill one pass formers suitable for (stainless)steel. ( Tool and material gets red hot ;-) uwe