Thread: Bent Recovery Point

Bring it down mate i will see if i can bend it for you. No looks the goods mate well done maybe you could start selling them.

G'day stevo,

recovery points look great mate!!! are you making two for both side of the rail???? Hey at least your points stayed on your car and didnt come flying off like mine , i could not believe that and i made sure they where tight before i left.

cheers simo

G'day stevo,


Whats the thickness of the recovery points you made???

Originally Posted by V8Landy

Bring it down mate i will see if i can bend it for you. No looks the goods mate well done maybe you could start selling them.

Thanks Mate. Its a bit of an overkill (same shape but about 15mm thick would have been heaps), but I didn't have any plate that size and the 10mm came at the right price!
If I had to get paid for my time I'd be having to sell them for about $200 each
Didn't have a big drill to make the shackle pin hole - too big to swing in the lathe, and don't have any oxy-acetylene bottles any more.
Ended up having to stitch drill it out then clean up the hole with a die grinder.
Geez I hate those those almost invisible steel slivers that end up bristling out of your hands..

There isn't a second one happening until I can find a better way of making the hole!!

Steve

The plate will not bend again, but your shackles certainly will after a while, Regards Frank.

Here is a local version I just altered the hole pitch.
These plates are made of structural plate 12mm thick. 300Mpa yield where mild steel is about 200Mpa yield.
Bolts are M10 Gr 12.9 Cap screws. STD bumper bolts.
See my thread about "Front and rear recovery points - Bolt sizes"

Do you realise that all the recovery force is on the bottom bolt only? Not much force needed to shear such a small diameter bolt. The top bolt is only a pivot. The 2 bolts need to be in the line of pull (or pretty close to it) to share the load.

Edit: Just saw your thread on bolt size, so your were already aware of the problem.

To me the bracket looks to be the tiedown point that come with the vehicle and were never designed to be a winching/recovery point. "Wrong" now I see the other posts coming up.