Originally Posted by
Grebe
Yes it would be obvious if the hole in ONE piece was perfectly in line with the hole in the other piece. But my **GUESS **is that the hole in the pickle fork was drilled in a jig, and the hole in the Fail safe strap was drilled/enlarged on final assembly, and most probably never reamed as an assembly.
If the full stack wasn't drilled, cold worked and then final reamed that's a process problem.
I've been involved with similar stack ups and they were always clamped up then final work was done on the assembly.