I would ovulate the holes.

Posted by chriscase on Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 12:58:30 :

In Reply to: Dont do it posted by Paul (in NY) on Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 10:27:48 :

I think there would be plenty of steel left if you took out a little bit. If they had been engineered with so little extra stength, they would be breaking now. Anybody ever heard of a shock mount breakage problem in either FF's or M37's?

Lessee, taking 1/8" out of each hole in a 4" bracket..,. thats 6%. Conventional engineering is to make things 5oo percent stronger than they need to be....

Paul, with all of your home made brackets in your custom rigs.... I guess either you haven't needed shock mounts, or opening up the holes didn't occur to you?

Follow Ups:

• Chris, If you could "ovulate".............. - Bob Thompson 00:17:37 05/06/2007
• Re: I would ovulate the holes. - Paul (in NY) 17:10:29 05/05/2007
  • Re: I would ovulate the holes. - RSBuc in Toronto 08:01:41 05/06/2007
    • Re: I would ovulate the holes. - Jerry in Idaho 12:27:17 05/06/2007
    • Rear shocks, from experience - Clint Dixon 10:23:32 05/06/2007
    • Re: I would ovulate the holes. - Paul (in NY) 08:25:02 05/06/2007
  • It's usually friction that holds things in place. - chriscase 18:06:48 05/05/2007
    • Re: It's usually friction that holds things in place. - Paul (in NY) 19:32:09 05/05/2007
      • But we didn't even get down to calling each other names! - chriscase 19:51:23 05/05/2007
        • Re: But we didn't even get down to calling each other names! - Paul (in NY) 19:56:46 05/05/2007

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