Are adhesives foolproof, would hate to have a fail at high speed on a public road?
Definitely not fool proof so probably best not to fly in an aeroplane either
I do understand that there is a fear of gluing mechanical things together. I lost my fear 40 years ago and have been regularly using engineering adhesives ever since. I’m neither for or against adhesives, they are just another tool in the tool box to be used when appropriate. However retaining the bushes with adhesive does offer advantages in the pursuit of achieving a better engineering solution, at least for me. Personally I’m not a great fan of reaming as a process anyway particularly when you are trying to achieve a precision fit in a bit of bent tube. If the tubes are distorted from welding one would unwittingly over ream to achieve the resultant sliding fit and that’s not ideal. Whereas retaining the pre-bored/seized bushes with a suitable adhesive using the pin to align them would allow a certain amount of bush float during curing, to help negate any axial distortion. Also the pre bored bush surface finish is better controlled compared to using a scratchy old reamer (IMO). The surface finish will effects the bearing life. When it comes to removing the bushes you don’t need a 20 ton press either, just heat to circa 200 deg C with a blowlamp and the Loctite is destroyed.
Each to their own and there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Now if only I had a line borer……
