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davzLSA
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Last Activity: 03-27-2024, 10:12 PM
Joined: 07-05-2016
Location: McCalla Alabama

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    Dave

    Looking pretty good!

    I see you made your doublers similar to mind and took my advice about not welding perpendicular to the weld path.

    I then filled that gap with JB weld after sandblasting but prior to painting to both smooth the joint and to seal out water.

    If I was doing it again, I probably would have tapered the top edge of the doublers to a point instead of cutting them straight across and I would have then welded them all the way around.

    But it truly is looking good.

    What's up next?

  • davzLSA
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    HI Brad, You know I was thinking of making the doublers tapered on one end like you were saying but I was thinking that I would be welding across the load path. So what you are saying is that if the weld is not perpendicular to the load path its OK to weld across the weld path? I'm looking forward to getting the main wheels on soon but I know that is going to be barrel of monkeys so I'm just doing one thing at a time and trying not to think too far ahead because if I do I get heart burn.
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