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The horror that was aluminium engine. You could open and close a screw only twice and goodbye threads.

The trade-off being (I'm guessing) that those threads would be pretty easy to re-tap by hand?

I think the usual move once threads are gone, is to move to a steel threaded insert (helicoil, time-sert, etc)

or go up a diameter if that's feasible.