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Re: Tube Versus Channel

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Although, this reminds me of the single biggest problem of using 1/16" wall tubing. If you're mounting something by bolting through the tubing, you need to be cautious about over-tightening your bolt, or you'll squish and deform your tube distressingly easily. We're constantly reining in the gorillas on the team that have a bad habit of severely over-tightening bolts and such.
You can either drill a large hole on one side of the tube so that you're only bolting through 1 face, you can use large washers, be careful with your tightening, some teams have had success with rivnuts, or you could try to find some other way to mount to the tube entirely (instead of bolting).