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Re: Tube Versus Channel

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Originally Posted by Gray Adams View Post
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).
Although they aren't very well known, rivnuts can make for a very neat solution in my experience. When I went around asking for rivnuts at SVR, people looked at me like I was crazy. I'm glad to hear someone has heard of them.
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