Sabotloader,
I have done some testing with proof loads significantly higher than the recommended loads for a sidelock CVA but I do not have the testing equipment or funds to buy it as the facilities you mentioned. I for one would be willing to contribute to a fund for doing the full blown testing you mentioned if someone could get a reasonable price that we could work toward. I already have invested maybe $100 or sodoing the testing I have already done and feel confident that the guns are more than safe within the recommended loading limits. But I also get tired of this subject coming up and being beat like the dead horse that it is (no pun intended). It would be nice to have an answer that proves one way or the other to point to.