Next best to Savvy bumper?
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I have a friend who was terrified of squirrels because one bit him on his finger. After many years of putting up with his intolerable phobia, we finally drug the rest of the story out of him. He was eating some sauce covered pasta for lunch, dug a noodle out to feed to the little critter that was sitting up and begging for food. Not the squirrel's fault that noodles and fingers taste the same when both are covered with alfredo sauce.
It is truly amazing how much misinterpretation has happened from that post. That other guy thought you wanted to build the whole thing out of stainless steel, and now pagrey thinks the bumper doesn't have enough strength since you said you would make the whole thing out of 1/4" and make winch deck *even* thicker to add *even more* strength (not that it is lacking any now for 99.99% of the people).
I recall some old thread where Jerry B said the front bumper recovery rings that he has on on his front bumper are not available anymore and you had said they made it into production but someone really absolutely misused it with some sort of a side pull. And that you/Savvy nixed that option so that stupid people don't have an option do stupid shit like that and put their rigs and lives in jeopardy.
It almost looks like people interpret what they want to interpret in spite of how clearly you write and in what context you say things. And it is frustrating to see when people who try to explain things about a superior product they get labeled as "apologists" and "fan boys".
Amazing isn't it?
As for the deck mount recovery point issue, the idiots in question nosed the rig down into a creek, got it stuck and it was on a very narrow trail. They hooked the winch up to the recovery point from just enough off to the side to keep the line off of the body and tried to 180 the rig out of the stuck using the front shackle mount. It was stuck hard and they bent the mount over sideways some.
Yeah, that's not gonna happen again so in the trash they went. For those following along, the bumper deck was unhurt even though the recovery point was through bolted to it.
Mrs App recently found out her snake, ironically named Noodle, can’t tell the difference from her pinky finger that had just held a mouse and an actual mouse. This snake has fangs in the back of its throat so it locked on like a Chinese finger trap. But even after the screaming and blood she still likes the snake. She’ll be more careful feeding it though.
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nice try
Fortunately it's not like a PTSD trigger thing....unless I find one on me by surprise. I just don't like them.I found one in my garage a few months ago after making widespread physical contact with a bunch of boxes while loading them into a truck to take over to the storage unit. I used my phone camera to get a closer view of it (sorry @Zorba) for identification and confirmed it was a brown recluse. I felt creepy crawlies all over me for the next several hours and signed a contract with Terminix as soon as I could get them to the house.
She's got lizards too but nothing like that.
Hey! I use my phone camera on occasion too!
Agreed. There was no confusion unless someone purposely intended to be.
did you explain to Mrs App that this incident was a great example of the long tail bury splice method for synthetic rope? tapered fingers ta boot! next time, she can put a little honey on the wound, will heal up quicker...
nathanotis
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WOW! This thing was 3 pages when I commented yesterday!
I may regret this but: What happens when you try to exceed the radius in question with 6061 T6? Crack? Tear? The 7th Seal?
<— Not a metallurgist.
I may regret this but: What happens when you try to exceed the radius in question with 6061 T6? Crack? Tear? The 7th Seal?
<— Not a metallurgist.
Another example of why we can't have nice things is the reason the BMB raised sway bar mounts don't have triangle cutouts anymore.
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Demons will emerge through the cracks. (the bend will weaken and eventually crack)
It isn't to exceed, it is instead, not reaching the minimum bend radius. 3/16" 6061 T6 has a minimum bend radius across the grain of .625 or a 1 1/4" round top punch with a wide enough bottom die to do an air bend. But not too wide or the sides will blow out and not conform to the radius properly.
If that minimum is not done, then the piece will just crack in half. That's how you know that products are not what they say they are.
Worse. A well known gent shows up at my house with both of them bent inward at a 45 degree angle. Tells me they failed miserably. Fast forward a couple years after I deleted the cut outs and I got the opportunity to do some work on the same rig. Careful observation revealed a pair of nice little quarter round dents on the inside face of the cutout down at the bottom of the forward slot that perfectly matched what you create if you used them with ratchet strap trailer tie down hooks.
Also explains why both were bent to exactly the same angle which would be very unusual if it happened on the trail. Of course, no mention was made of how they failed, just that they did. I had already made the change and thrown away 50 sets of mounts when I figured it out.
It's been about a year since the geometry correction thread so I guess this was due.
