Pete wrote: > It's the addition of the tube spacer that adds the strength not the > length of the bolt. What it effectively does is take an area that has > two potential failure modes and replaces it with one. > Cheers. > O k..but that is not SHEAR STRENGTH we're talking about, and I cant see any improvement in the Tensile Strength either. Common sense seems to indicate that if one bolt fails in a single bolt structure, the results would likely be more catastrophic than if one bolt fails in a two bolt system. It does not make sense to me. That being said, what are these "Failure Modes"you are referring to?
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