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Re: Team Update 14 (2016)

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Originally Posted by RufflesRidge View Post
That's the change to GE-16028 and GE-16178. A countersink in the plastic with a flat head screw was replaced with a counterbore with a button head cap screw.

A steel plate was used at Palmetto but does not appear to be the permanent solution.
I saw that change... I don't know anything about the exact failures seen on the CDF's at Palmetto, but I have a hard time imagining that using a BHCS in a counterbore vs a flat head screw in a countersink is significant enough to prevent CDF's from breaking consistently (as the unmodified ones did at Palmetto).
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