Originally Posted by cudak888

P.S.: I don't want to give you PTSD by bringing this up, but have you considered letting someone put a few MIG tack welds on the gap in the the dropout eyelet? MIG is extremely localized, so it shouldn't muss up the paint like a torch. It would be really simple to tap back out to M6 and touchup, thus giving you an intact eyelet to work with again