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Re: Best Practices for Not Crushing Thin-Wall Tubing

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
Creep is the wrong word, I think. What I meant is that wear on the hole from vibration or cyclic loading of the bolted part happens much more quickly on .04 wall tube than any other size. This kind of wear is something that I've been able to ignore elsewhere in FRC due to the short life span, but in this tubing you can't. We added some plates to increase the effective material thickness at the hole site and riveted the plate to the nearest neighboring holes.
Rodger that, makes more sense than creep!
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