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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Fatigue? From a small bottle of water? What is this nonsense?
Unlike some other metals (steel and ti, for example), aluminum doesn't have a fatigue limit where it can cycle an unlimited amount of times under that threshold without failure. Aluminum will eventually succumb to fatigue failure. It's inevitable. (This is stuff I learned recently, thanks to BF).
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