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Default Best method of "pinning" firewall or wing block through the fuse sides?

Greetings,

After hearing some stories of the wing mounting block ripping out of Ultra Stick 40's, I thought it might be best to pin the wing block to the fuselage sides. (I already ran extra epoxy around the block)

My question is what to use for the "pins". Drilling too large of a hole for dowels would cause a weakening of the block and be counterproductive I think. I was wondering about drilling only a 1/16" hole on each side and using short pieces of music wire for the pins.

Has anyone tried this? Thanks for any input!

Ernie