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Re: Massive Hit

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
I have to say, I have little sympathy for people who go to all the trouble of welding up a frame, only to grind all the reinforcement off. As you discovered there, unless you've done a proper bevel prep on the edge, a butt joint is quite likely to have low penetration and little fusion of the base metal. And so you can end up with fractures that follow the original seam quite impressively. Any time one of my mentors suggests we weld something up and grind it flush, I give them the evil eye and they usually decide that perhaps we don't actually need to grind it, actually...
When you drop the frame off to be welded and it comes back like that, you dont really have much of a choice
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