I would love to see someone that has taken a crossbolt action and stressed it untill it opened. Even if you leave the metal thick around the angle of where the table and standing breech meets it realy shouldnt do anything then add weight if the crossbolt is correctly fitted. The force should be on the crossbolt and hinge in a streight angle with the barrels, or am i wrong?

Damn its almost as i want to try this myself, and why not take the locks off completly and only leave the crossbolt. Someone with the skills to calculate the force to cut the crossbult streight of, and then take the angle of opening and everything else in the calculation?