I just had a thought. I read up on U-swivels a few days ago, since one or two of you refuse to use much of anything else. and it said that basically, the downfall of the design was that since the screw that attached it went with the grain of the wood, it was prone to failure during striking, and eventually even with usual wear and tear would eventually pull out anyway. So I think, well, what if you used, instead of a screw, a carriage bolt or something with a larger diameter, say half an inch, just for theorhetical purposes, and you cross drilled a hole through that, and used a tension pin to secure it, cross-grain in the wood, so instead of the threads of the screw being the thing that held it together, it was instead just an eyelet to pass the pin through. Of course, then you'd still need to fabricate the piece that connects the anchoring screw to the clevis, but in the end, you'd have a pair of u-swivels that were less prone to mechanical failure. If I can afford the supplies, hopefully in the next month or so, I'll build a prototype to show you guys (and girls) what I'm saying, in case you can't follow my logic, but I think I may be onto something. Even if that proves to be incorrect, I can still experiment with the proto-U's. I've never owned a pair before. Anyway, thoughts?
