Massive Hit

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by animenerdjohn

At Hub City we had a pretty fun collision with 16 . You can see the numerous places our frame split. We Covered the whole thing in tin foil and had it rewelded (This time without the faces being ground off). No issues.

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...