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Old 28th Sep 2017, 17:00
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lomapaseo
 
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If vibration is causing the screws to loosen, I still think it is surprising that it happened to all two dozen of them at once.
It's not clear from some fuzzy pictures that all screws backed out. Some could have simply had their heads popped off from vibration. It happens to rivets like that.
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