>From: "Curtis Carlson" <carlson@navtech.com>
>Also, for mounting the brackets to the A-Arms, I wanted to get the
>strongest bolts available, so I bought stainless steel
>bolts/washers/nuts for this. Do you all think that this will work okay
Curtis I would recomend strongly against using stainless steel fasteners
for any structural use. Stainless steel is weak compared to grade 5 or
Grade 8 fasteners. It also has a tendency to gall if installed and
removed a few times. For the use you are going to put them to I would
use at least Grade 5 nuts bolts and washers.
Regards,
Peter.
(lets not start the Grade 5 vs Grade 8 debate again, at least we agreed
on stainless being bad)
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