Should I be concerned with this weld

justjeepin86

justjeepin86

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Bought a harbor freight receiver winch cradle for the trailer. Yeah, I expect it to not be great. But, the welds are really undercut and thin. Wondering whether I should run another bead or not. If it was for my Jeep, I would have never bought it. What do you guys think. It's kind hard to tell in the pic, but the second one is the best.
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For what it is, it's probably fine. The bottom seems to show a little cold lap at the toe. Not great, but will probably hold well enough for the winch to bend the plate before they let go. Laying another bead over shit isn't going to solve it either. You'd really want to grind that out and start over if you really want to fix it.
 
run it, its fine.
 
straight line pull, no problemo. even thin/shallow, that's a lot of linear weld
 
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