It's the addition of the tube spacer that adds the strength not the length of the bolt. What it effectively does is take an area that has two potential failure modes and replaces it with one. Cheers. Peter Bancks. Ballina, Oz.
On 3/10/2010 12:49, Glenn Martin wrote: > I can see how a thicker bolt could improve shear strength, or a bolt of > a greater rating, but unless I am missing something, I see no way that a > longer bolt of the same type and size could improve its shear strength > at the wing attach fitting junction through an increase in its length. > Did I miss somthing in physics class?
