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Dear Simey 15-Jul-2007 At 6:10:09 PM M10iswhereitsat.

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On 15/07/2007 simey wrote:
>I think you are getting too hung up on every little aspect.

Yeah, I know what ur sayin, but...

When I get this feeling
It gets in ma system !
I cant put the breaks on !!
OOOOHHHH !!!
I cant help ma self ...
( Iva / Icehouse / Flowers )

>As for dynabolts, well I can only go on my experience and knowledge. I'm
>not aware of dynabolts failing in climbing situations. But I am aware of
>10mm dynabolts being overtorqued during placement and shearing. However
>the bolts I placed were 12mm bolts and I made a point of not overtorquing
>them. The hangers sit on the sleeve allowing the nut to be screwed on properly
>without being half-on like some poorly placed dynabolts I've seen.
>
>Static loads, shear loads... f---ed if I know all that stuff, but I would
>be quite happy to lob onto these babies. And they have been placed at regular
>intervals to provide back-up should something in the system fail unexpectedly.

Static means they are designed, eg , to bolt a piece of angle-iron onto a brick wall --- not have crazy climbers leaping out of the sky onto them and shearing them off at 90 degrees.