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Old 05-01-2008, 08:50 PM   #197
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Originally Posted by malconium
If you trust self-taping screws to work out in the middle of the floor why wouldn't you trust them to work in the areas where you can not use a bolt with a nut on the bottom?
My thinking is that the screws outside the wall-channel are primarily holding the floor down while the bolts inside the wall-channel are primarily holding down the shell. The shell is a lot heavier and hence more likely to exert greater forces than the floor. Yes?
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