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Re: Strip: Yakama foot brace install
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 2/17/2010, 12:42 am
In Response To: Re: Strip: Yakama foot brace install (george jung)

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: I've only used the McMaster-Carr SS studs (same ones CLC uses) -
: and man, they are strong. You could hang a beef off of one of
: those, and they're not going anywhere. Might be over-built - but
: looks like the best way to go, from what I've seen.

That's the way I've done it, the SS studs and agree they are very strong and pretty much fool proof. I would have a problem putting a nut into the wood, if whatever is holding it quits holding it then what do you do? A failure on the T bolts is a relatively easy fix.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Yakama foot brace install
mtkayak -- 2/16/2010, 1:47 pm
Re: Strip: Yakama foot brace install
Dale Benham -- 2/16/2010, 3:11 pm
Re: Strip: Yakama foot brace install
george jung -- 2/16/2010, 7:09 pm
Re: Strip: Yakama foot brace install
Bill Hamm -- 2/17/2010, 12:42 am
Re: Strip: Yakama foot brace install *PIC*
Etienne Muller - Ireland -- 2/18/2010, 9:53 am