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Re: Commissioned Report on Indiana Fair Tragedy


One of the other things I noticed on the Thomas literature that was included was the recomendation to check the welds for cracks using dye or a magnifying glass, but to me that's a skilled job not something an untrained person should be signing off on.  I've never seen these structures up close during assembly so sorry about the roof coming in comment, is there a version of these where guying it is not such a critical thing ie is there a way of making the thing self supporting to a greater degree if not completely so? One other question are these guy attachment points only able to be put on the corners or can they be put in the middle of a frame member so that the load could be shared out and reduce the total load per point?

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