PJ2
I think a picture is worth at least a thousand words. Given that the shackles and pins look as they do, reasonably untouched, and the hoops have broken away, burned, and exposed the Hardy mounting bed, I can't understand why these metallic beds are "Battleship engineered" bomb proof, and the Stabiliser is "frangible". Composites and two phase materials are ill equipped for concentrated bearing points, especially when considering there is a metallic and polymer join to fail. One or the other, but merging them is something that may never be mastered.
bear
Last edited by bearfoil; 5th Mar 2010 at 19:29.