Yeah you definitely dont want to buy stainless steel parts on anything you need to be stronger. Stainless bends pretty easily compared to regular steel or hardened aluminum
hmmmm he did say breaking. For some reason I originally read that as bending. I've had a lot of stock hinge pins bend on me over the years but outsode of 100+MPH wrecks I dont think I've ever had one break. Either way though the GPM ones say they are Stainless.
This give the dimensions of the...
The GPM hinge pins are made from stainless steel according to their website, which would make sense that he keeps bending them. Kinda surprised GPM usually makes good strong 6061-T6 aluminum for all their hop ups or at least they did in the past. They seem to like using stainless steel for some...
I'm not finding any after market hinge pins for that kit except for the GPM ones but those are made out of stainless steel which bends fairly easily. Probably better off with stock ones over the GPM ones. Unless those are stainless steel also 🤷♂️