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Re: [TR] Testing by dropping the car from 6" off the ground?

To: "'list Triumph'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [TR] Testing by dropping the car from 6" off the ground?
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:10:43 -0700
> If you 
> want a confidence test, take two pieces of your surplus sheet 
> steel, weld them together, then go beat the begeevies out of 
> it with a sledge hammer, or put one side in the vice and try 
> to peel the other one away from it, or try bending it right 
> at the weld 60 times.

This is basically standard practice when learning to weld.  Make a weld then
test it to destruction.  If the weld fails before the metal on either side,
you didn't do it right and you have to do it again until it's right.

Randall
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