If you dont know,this is how you do that.Also I worked for RUAN Truck Leasing for 3 years.They had a shop where they took several wrecked trucks and made one truck out of them.With 10,000 trucks on the road fror years they always had wrecks to rebuild.They cut and welded frames and this is what they told us.When you put that fish plate on taper the ends.Plus keep all of your weld at least an inch from the radius of the curve where the frame is bent for the flanges.In other words an inch from the top and and inch from the bottom when you get done welding it.So say an inch and a quarter from the top of the frame and an inch and a quarter from the bottom of the frame is as big of a plate as you can use.Then I seem to remember it had to have 4 bolts on each side of the frame it was holding together,with the ends of the plate tapered off instead of a square plate,kind of a long hexagon.Plus no welds across the end of the fish plate just the top and bottom.Something about that weld on the end would cause a crack.Also welding too close to the radius will cause a crack. Just like everything else,people that do the job every day know a lot about it.I could have welded on frames my whole life and not learned those things about it,but by working with those people I learned that stuff and it works.
On a smaller frame just a smaller scale of the same thing should probably hold it.
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