Originally Posted by
ehcoplex
Hmm, that raises an interesting question... most dimpling of stays I've seen look like whatever made the dimple was small (like
nlerner 's drive bit) oriented parallel to the stays. But there have been a few that looked like whatever did it was larger and oriented perpendicular to the stays (more or less like I understand the pipe to have been as
robobike316 describes doing it). I wonder if the former is better as far as structural integrity... or if it doesn't significantly matter....?
I apologize that I don't remember the source, but I've seen a discussion here that said that nlerner's style (with deformation parallel to the length of the stay) is less failure-prone than robobike's (perpendicular to the length of the stay). Which is disappointing because it somehow seems less elegant to me. But
not breaking is more important...