[dr_lew]

I don't think it's that simple. There are images of workers attending to a repair of the "floor" of the chute in that area, which of course subseqently failed. It seems to be some kind of surface effect, which I am tempted to attribute to the location below the downward bend.

I ask myself, "Why did it fail in the first place?" and "Why did it fail again in the same spot?"

My hypothetical answer is that the location just below the fall-off of the chute causes increased stress due to cavitation, or what have you, and it failed the second time ( after the repair ) for the same reason that it failed the first time ... faulty design!

[Flick Lives]

A few buckets of this and it'll be fine.