AV8R_87
Line Up and Wait
Putting legality (or lack of it) aside for a moment, I see no buckling in those tube halves, and no elongation in the mounting holes.
I wonder if whoever did the repair actually understood how the loads were distributed in the mount (lack of buckling would make me think the main load through that tube was in tension, not compression) and that bodge held together through a lot more than sheer (shear??) luck.
I wonder if whoever did the repair actually understood how the loads were distributed in the mount (lack of buckling would make me think the main load through that tube was in tension, not compression) and that bodge held together through a lot more than sheer (shear??) luck.