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Re: bolting square aluminum without crushing walls

Bolting through box is poor engineering practice. I'll spare the explaination today. A better answer would be to rivnut (rivet nut) the aluminum.

http://www.bollhoff.com/web/usa/en/w.../index_us.html

You can get them and the tools from McMaster-Carr.

Pete