my chainplates (taipan F16) are glued in and they are still there. I have complete trust in them.

Phil Brander came up with a working solution as indeed glues have trouble sticking to aluminium etc. What Phil does is dril many holes in the chainplate and set it into a layer of thickened epoxy (epoxy with filler) and laminate the chainplate in. The thickened epoxy filles the wholes in the plate and hardens out as pegs that keep the plate in place. The laminate around the plate keeps it in place (on these pegs). I think there were about 9 hole in the plate where it is laminated in.

Wouter