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This might be an idiotic post, but I just was thinking - aren't there some left-handed threads on some of those bolts? Maybe you're tightening when you mean to be loosening? Okay, if I'm off-base, this was stupid, but there have been times when I've forgotten the existence of "backwards bolts".