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Old 11-16-2006, 11:44 PM
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Here's the section taped up and ready for welding and then after welding and a lot of extra material for strength was added.:
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Old 11-16-2006, 11:47 PM
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And here's the final result before and sanding or shaping. I still have a bunch of little cracks to deal with but these two major ones were the big hurdles to conquer first.
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Old 11-19-2006, 09:01 PM
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I also used the welder to recreate the missing broken sections by gradually building up material until it replicated the original contours. This took about three hours today to get the rough shape of the broken sections.

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Old 11-23-2006, 12:28 PM
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It's Thanksgiving so I'm hiding downstairs since my wife threw me out of the kitchen. Here are the reproduced sections after more welding, filing and sanding:
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