For the gearheads.....

[CountryBoy19]

Yeah, I was gonna say, that's a pretty good looking weld. No porosity, no stops and starts, heat looks good. Doesn't get much better than that.

There is one thing I see that may be a problem if the application had a factor of safety of 1.1, but this has a factor of safety of about 10+ it looks like.

It appears that the work was done with a MIG welder using a flux-cored wire which will leave behind a little flux/slag seen in the photo. The way the slag has crept all the way out to the edges of the weld leads me to believe that there may have been a little porosity on the edges... but it's a creeper for goodness sake, that weld is nearly perfect.

 

[ReSSurrected]

It appears that the work was done with a MIG welder using a flux-cored wire...

Nope, gas shielded

 

[CountryBoy19]

Nope, gas shielded

Not questioning you, but you can use flux-cored wire and gas-shielding together, we do all the time. The evidence on the bead looks as if the wire has some type of flux core in it.

 

[ReSSurrected]

Not questioning you, but you can use flux-cored wire and gas-shielding together, we do all the time. The evidence on the bead looks as if the wire has some type of flux core in it.

Nope, that's with C25 and solid core.