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Originally Posted by Bob86ZZ4
Wow, it's great to see Henry (hjsdds) here! You guys, Henry is a wealth of knowledge on an amazingly vast array of subjects. And he's a very very good keyboard player.
Henry, that Z weld you speak of and show a picture. Is there no metal plate welded over the weld on the outside of the frame? It looks from your picture that there is nothing welded over the inside of the frame. Wouldn't some pieces of steel welded over both sides and extending front/rear several inches make it stronger?
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Bob, this was a "challenge truck". First the original rails were cut very short. The rearmost vertical weld of the "Z" is, is where the rails ended. If we had more rails to work with we would probably opted for a long angled weld and do some fish-plating. We V-groved the joints on both sides and welded both sides, we felt that these weld were as good as you could make them. The we extended the 2 x 3 rectangular tube (ET hitch bottom spacer) into the Z and stitch welded the tube to both, the we extended the bumper angle bracket into, the Z and bolted it to both ends. I don't think the structure was going anywhere.
By the way, where we moved to is Jazz Central. Making serious inroads with the "locals".
You know musicians, when you move from "you can sit in", to "we want you back", that's significant.
hjs