[TheForge] Re: OK, now I'm mildly perplexed...

[Andy Vida]

Mike wrote:

> We've gotten pretty used to stuff that is engineered to within a
> hair's breadth of destruction in order to save a fraction of a cent per
> unit in manufacturing costs or even in packing, handling or shipping
> costs.
> 
> I surmise that the folks who made this over-built it for the
> anticipated stress, whatever it have been, maybe by as much as 100% or
> even more.  If they had been really worried about catastrophic failure
> under load, they would have wrapped the grain of the wrought iron
> around the hole and welded it rather than punching the hole through
> the grain.

	Good point.  I completely forgot about this.