Originally Posted by phelan

Mmmm....distributed forces, I had forgotten about that. Good point. I would hope that the torque required for the fasteners would be on the assembly drawing though.

As an engineer, I would actually think if the rationale showed it's still good for use-as-is, the initial cost of material may be prohibitive, and they can provide the rationale and move on. I still don't agree, given the price I can't figure out how they couldn't just buy more metal and redo it, but just saying.