Anyone seen this before ?
Found this today on starboard side chainplate: It looks very much like a crack but it doesn’t make sense to me to be a stress crack vertically like its trying to pull the chain plate horizontally apart. It looks like its trying to pull the outside half away from the inside half. If it was a stress crack I would have thought the crack itself would have been horizontal and the tension up would try to pull it in half. The bolts on these chainplates are not visible on the outside and Im wondering if the chainplate is made in two halves and laminated together somehow, over the top of the bolts and its delaminating. Is that even possible ? I did see someone asking a similar question with a similar observation, but no one answered. Does anyone know how Hunter makes there chainplates
Found this today on starboard side chainplate: It looks very much like a crack but it doesn’t make sense to me to be a stress crack vertically like its trying to pull the chain plate horizontally apart. It looks like its trying to pull the outside half away from the inside half. If it was a stress crack I would have thought the crack itself would have been horizontal and the tension up would try to pull it in half. The bolts on these chainplates are not visible on the outside and Im wondering if the chainplate is made in two halves and laminated together somehow, over the top of the bolts and its delaminating. Is that even possible ? I did see someone asking a similar question with a similar observation, but no one answered. Does anyone know how Hunter makes there chainplates
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