by flyalaz » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:05 pm
Hey Russell,
I'm with you 100% about drilling holes. These holes, however, are already in existence for rivets, so nothing new was drilled. Although the edge material for the 3/16" dia. bolts is on the minimum side of things, I have it on good authority that this was the fix. The shear strength of the bolts are many times more than the solid rivets originally installed, and nothing short of total destruction of that front plate will let that assembly rotate again. Also in that picture, you can see some original rivets that were dumped which I later changed out.
If anyone knows about other incidents, it would be some of the older more knowledgeable guys on the site (you know who you are!), and maybe they could pipe in.
Cheers,
Karl
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