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Posted by clueless [201.202.25.26] on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 at 10:48:39 :
In Reply to: Re: Heres a scary and sorry mess posted by Dave Royal [75.81.246.156] on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 at 22:48:59 :
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The frame of a truck is not special in any way, it's still a strip of mild steel put into a series of brakes and dyes to get it into shape. Tempering and annealing is pointless because it's not high carbon and it's not an alloy steel, and as long as you don't put 6 passes of super hot welds over each other, you'll be fine.
If you're welding a step side or some attachment stuff, then as long as the plates being welded are round or diamond shaped(like what sasquatch was saying), you'll get the most possible amounts of strength out of it.
Welding is always stronger than bolting, if it's possible, weld it vertical UP, this reqires some extra skill, but it is as strong, if not, stronger than a regular flat weld(I did this on 1" plate and bend tested it for college, solid across the board). A nice hot bead will more than get the job done
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