<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2501"> Hi,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2494" dir="ltr">is anyone using threaded inserts in fiberglass to attach components.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2487" dir="ltr">I was looking at attaching my ballast valves & lights as per attached drawing</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2368" dir="ltr">with the flanged end of threaded inserts fitted in to holes drilled in my ballast</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2369" dir="ltr">tank, & then filled in with epoxy around them.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2370" dir="ltr">Most of the images I have see in searches show the flange at the top, but I thought it would</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2371" dir="ltr">be stronger with the flange embedded. There are other versions of the threaded</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2424" dir="ltr">insert that have an additional large thread on the outside. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2425" dir="ltr">I thought it would be easy to locate the inserts in relation to the holes in the top ballast</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2426" dir="ltr">plate by screwing them up to the plate with the retaining bolts & pushing them down</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2486" dir="ltr">in to slightly oversized holes in the fiberglass that are half filled with epoxy.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2485" dir="ltr">when the epoxy sets just unscrew the bolts & fill in the rest of the way round the </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2484" dir="ltr">inserts.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2527" dir="ltr">Alan</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2538" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2483" dir="ltr"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1545991034117_2384" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>