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New cross-member in for good.
Reinstalled for the final time and ready to begin welding.
Double checking for "square" in the corners just to make doubly damn sure. My biggest concern at this point was getting it all glued in only to find out that the shelf no longer seated in squarely.
All that careful dissecting of these corners was to have a chance of recreating this multilayer presentation as closely as possible to the way it was before I had to dig it all out. This area will get one small gas weld at the end down deep in the corner but is left raw otherwise.
Begin plug welding from the center outward along the outside pinch seam. It was tough reaching down in there to weld as my hand would also block my view as I went.
Once the outer pinch seam was welded then it was onto welding up the corner gusset plug weld holes. Crossmember officially all welded in at this point.
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