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Funny you should say that A...that is one of the things keeping me from squeezing the trigger...the other one is this damn "guilt" shit...everytime i get serious about it, i read about food shortages, talk to a bum, blah blah blah... seriously, my company would take me back...its an awesome company, my fellow staff absolutely rock, my boss is really solid and respectable, the projects are world class...i'm just siiiiiick of it...i feel so bad about not liking it anymore... this is why i haven't bothered to look at other firms...i don't think i can beat this one...or my job...i just don't want do it anymore...

No...not at all...

you are absolutely smokin' crack...you must be hangin with that kevretard kid too much...

has no effect if its a 5 piece expansion bolt...

more what i was thinking is "did it recharge your batteries to get you re-stoked on what you were doing, or did you wind up saying Fuck it permanently?"

trying to keep ahead of boner's post count? no...i'm trying to make him go away...think it'll work??

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no

personal leave of abscence or a sabbatical?? Thoughts? Repercussions to one's careers??

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Kevin can't count that high...there's probably a miscount...

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ahhh the serenity of sweet silence...

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Is this because of the rock issues, or because the bolt was placed incorrectly? my thought is that any purely mechanical bolt will slowly loosen because of the decomposing and granular nature of this particular crag. on shitty concrete, we have significantly OVERDRILLED the hole and used an epoxy bolt to keep the bond stresses between the wall holes and the epoxy plug as minimal as possible...you basically are "rebuilding" the local area with an epoxy grout.... freeze thaw will fuck you though...the advantage of a slip cone for mechanical bond is that its "adjustable" in the sense that the bolt can be retightened to account for slop in the system...one way to hedge this is to increase the length of embedment for either system...

I am a bit unsure what you mean by epoxy reinforced. I have always thought that bolts that work via some mechanical principle shouldn’t be epoxied because doing so can inhibit the mechanical action. That said if you use an epoxy suitable for a glue-in bolt what you are really doing is turning a mechanical device into a chemically bonded one which is probably ok just an inefficient use of dollars. If the wrong epoxy is used you might simply be creating a time bomb. i'm not aware of the contra-indications with mech bolts and epoxy, and have never used the combo. seems to me if the wedge can be activated in the presence of epoxy, this approach would be superior to a simple epoxy bolt.... anyway, because of the rock issues at this crag, a one piece wedge bolt seems to be an unsafe approach. sexy chocolate...its not a good idea to mix the two...either rely on a mechanical bond (friction) or rely on a chemical bond. The epoxy WILL fuck up the mechanical bond....

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try not to confuse kevbone...speak slowly, use pictures and crayons and simple gestures...

forest gump is a relative einstein compared to our friend, kevbeenboned...