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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Denver, Colorado
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Denver, Colorado
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Originally Posted by jbtvt
I think he's mistaken. Those welds look good to me, and though we can't really tell from the photo angle, the break appears to be through the solid bar stock itself above the weld. The only way you'll get that "high cycle low stress" fracture pattern as jetboy so eloquently described is if the weld is holding and the bar itself is being torqued beyond its yield point. The rusty one I thought was established was likely broken for a while and you didn't notice symptoms until the other one also gave out.
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That's very possible. I'm not sure if we'll know for certain.
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