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The picture above shows that it was not a problem with the bolts themselves, but the block threads that sheared right off.

I'm sure Honda overly designed the thread pitches and length with sufficient factors of safety, so I'm guessing it was a quality issue with ingots used to make some of the blocks. When we specify minimum material properties at work, the product we get back from our suppliers has widely varying ultimate yield and ultimate tensile strengths.

Thanks for posting the pics Jason. Interesting.

[QUOTE="Mac Attack, post: 1938031, member: 12356"] The picture above shows that it was not a problem with the bolts themselves, but the block threads that sheared right off. I'm sure Honda overly designed the thread pitches and length with sufficient factors of safety, so I'm guessing it was a quality issue with ingots used to make some of the blocks. When we specify minimum material properties at work, the product we get back from our suppliers has widely varying ultimate yield and ultimate tensile strengths. Thanks for posting the pics Jason. Interesting. [/QUOTE]

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