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Old July 28th, 2018, 10:51   #4
RainyEyes
 
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No there shouldn't be any problem.

Building engineers and architects often use a triangle design for it's support beams because the 3 sides often redistribute the force evenly to prevent damage. The way that the force is distributed here is like hammering the top of a triangle so that the other sides redistribute the force to prevent it from cracking in half.

The force of the piston head is absorbed at the front whereas the sides are just for guides. The stress of the material wouldn't be at the rails and if you look at pictures of common points of failure you would know that the piston breaks either at the front or the end usually where the piston hits the cylinder head or where the pickup tooth sustains too much stress from pre-engagement. As long as you don't dig into the trench of the rails it will be fine. Just take a bit off the inner sides of the rails rather than digging deeper unless it really is that fat.
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