Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-07-26 14:03
I have seen many btroken tenons on plastic Vitos, Armstrongs, Accords, etc, but I think I have seen more broken wooden tenons than I have broken plastic Yamaha tenons. With plastics it is to do with the particular plastic and a design which avoids 'stress raisers'.
Broken wooden tenons are usually a shattered mess, whereas broken plastic ones are clean breaks, which I have almost invisibly glued and pinned (six 1.2 mm stainless steel 30 mm rods) many times with no failures. This repair is probably stronger than the rest of the body, and takes me about 90 minutes.
So with these considerations, along with the carbon fibre reinforcing in the Greenlines, I would not be too worried.
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