Press doesn't work quite right.

[Underdog]

Hi, so tonight we tried to do the first dry run on my ski press and we ran into a few issues. The pins we had holding the side bars in bent under pressure approximately 40lbs psi. Since the pins were 1/4inch cold roll steel I'm thinking re-drill the holes in the frame to 3/8 and use bolts instead.



The other issue Was that at the curve towards the tips it didnt look like the hoses were pressing down enough. I was talking with the guy who was helping me and he said that we should add pressure to get them to fill the cavity but I'm concerned about the frame and the hoses. The hoses I have are only rated to 70 psi max. I'm not exactly sure what pressure I want to press at either. I'm using the QCM emv-0043.