Engineers, is this application method as whacked out as I think it is?
Sorry about the title typo.
It could work if you were hanging a flowerpot.
what do you think about this?
Maybe the guy who wrote the report is confused.
From what I read, the bigger problem was adequately cleaning the holes and appying adequate adhesive.
I am not an engineer, but why do people think think this might not be acceptable out of hand?
I would ask how much clearance is involved between the sides of the hole and the bolt, for starters. Obviously (to this non-engineer) if the tolerances are very small, it is likely that the majority of the epoxy might just squirt out the top without mixing in any kind of appropriate quantities.
If it is a pretty sloppy fit, it sound reasonable to me on the surface.
I'm not an engineer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
Here's an article from Engineering News Record web site from the AP.
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I'm not an engineer, but I did sleep at a Holiday Inn last night.
And that sounds TOTALLY whacked.
Here's an example from Mom's kitchen, of all places. She used to make a "marble cake." She would pour some chocolate cake batter into a pan and then carefully pour on some vanilla cake batter. She then took a knife, pierced the batter (drilled the hole), then pulled the knife around in a design.
Of course, the batter did not combine into one batter.
Kitty Dukakis often successfully mixed liquids in this fashion.