Appreciate the feedback. After looking at your page it seems that you can do some welding. So, as your familiar with the process and sometimes understand having issues at hand. Here we had the truck down which had our big welder/generator combo. So we ended up using our cracker box with no shielding gas running off a generator. Which of course does NOT make it the best situation in those circumstances. Final product was great! Little more grinding due to the small machine but definitely solid and looks great! Have a good one sir!!