weld broken on the slide - common??

Kayteg1 wrote:
Since the first post you made about it, I start restoring front wall of my Fleetwood and looks like yes- the poor welds on aluminium frame are industry standard. Knowing how the industry works, I would be not surprised all aluminium frames come from the same shop and are wrapped with different brand skins.
Here are some pictures how I fix my issue.


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Here is close up on the weld. Yes, that teardrop is all the weld it was. I found a bit more on the other side, but it all was cold weld, that come off without penetration.
Your weld looks like cold weld as well. Those have the strength of bubble gum.


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Interesting (weld) if you want to call it that (weld) looks more like pigeon shitte to me.

Something I hardly ever allude to on forums but I own and manage a machine and fabrication shop and we do welding on exotic metals, aluminum, stainless, high alloy and good old low carbon steel too in various processes, MIG, TIG, Pulsed Mig SMAW and OA and some of it is X-ray quality.

Seeing that, I'd be a fool to admit to that as being my handy work.

Obvious to me, it was done with a MIG unit running Argon gas and aluminum wire and the operator was unskilled to say the least.

If one of my employees did work like that, he'd be on the street looking for employment elsewhere and certainly no referral from me.

I only hire certified welders with a current certificate.

All I can say is.... You have to be joking?

But then I forget, it's a RV, not something that has to stand up to heavy use without failure and builders in the RV industry don't seem to give a hoot.

The clown that did that isn't worth minimum wage.