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> Damn . . . . I wish I'd have learned that THIRTY YEARS ago when I
> started my rigging carreer (never had the balls to tack the word
> 'master' in front of the name). In those thirty years of
> commissioning, rigging, re-rigging, building, etc, etc, etc, I have
> NEVER had a self tapping screw pull out. Some of those boats
> were balls-to-the wall racers, everyday sailors, and a couple made
> serious blue water passages . . . . . never any failures. I guess
> ignorance is bliss . . . . . .
>
> Dik
Probably everything worked out okay because you had the doc remove your
Skene's Scantlings : )