Bending a rodney

rustycowll69 said

if that strut material was tempered correctly, I don't think it would have folded up like that. I would think it would have broken.

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Yeah I know. You know I'm no engineer but it seems odd that the struts attachment is "against the grain".
Why have the rotational forces pushing on it. Seems like it would be stronger against a pulling type force.