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JFigliuolo · 05-12-2009, 01:59 PM

Habs contacted VMC about cutting hooks. They did not recomend it... That being said... I cut them when I feel I need to and don't worry about it. The hook will need to be replaced well before any metal fatigue makes it fail. At least in my experience.

05-12-2009, 01:59 PM	#28
JFigliuolo Registered User iTrader: (0) Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cumberland, RI Posts: 2,233	Habs contacted VMC about cutting hooks. They did not recomend it... That being said... I cut them when I feel I need to and don't worry about it. The hook will need to be replaced well before any metal fatigue makes it fail. At least in my experience.
	Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning