by Redneck Teepee » Fri Feb 12, 2016 11:36 pm
Should not be a problem, all that bolt does is hold/position the leafs correctly as an engineered unit and keeps them from sliding out of position fore or aft in the pack or assembly. Shear strength for a 1/4" grade 8 is in the neighborhood of 80,000 psi and it only goes up from there with larger diameters.
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction, the world will have a generation of idiot's.