The long ones easily break from metal fatigue -- aluminium is not the right metal for such brackets.
I'd have thought as long as it wasn't bent it should be fine, they shouldn't be under any real loading forces...
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The long ones easily break from metal fatigue -- aluminium is not the right metal for such brackets.