Welding Longeron into Saddle

[Scotty M]

Hello all,
From my pictures you can see I am replacing the lower longerons on my -12. I have carefully cut and ground out the "saddle area" and the new longeron nestles in there very well. My question from those with experience doing this is, ... do I weld er up as is or do the old oxy weld beads need to be taken down more? After removing the lift strut/gear fitting I did very carefully remove as much old weld bead as possible so the new fitting will fit nice, but this was very difficult as it hard to tell when you reach the original tube/structure. It will be going back together with TIG. I appreciate any tips or tricks!!
Thanks, Scott

 

[Sturgill]

You really did a nice job fitting the new steel. If I had a fit that good I’d get right to welding before I screwed something up. There is plenty of area there to weld to. Should work out fine.

 

[Steve Pierce]

You could leave it but we always grind the weld off. Just feel like it is better but no definitive reason.

 

[tempdoug]

or just a little more of the weld to leave a nice V, looking at your 2nd picture down

 

[fishhook]

Looks good, weld her up after getting the new longeron shiny. Could grind some of the old weld down a little but thats just fine as it is!