Originally posted by Dave Severson
Hey Psycho, if I believe it may be best to strip the cart and take it to a shop and have it tigged together. IMHO it would be a very good investment.
I will be stripping the kart back down to the frame as soon as I'm completely done building and fine turning everything. I'll take it for a few low speed test rides to make sure I've got everything dialed in right, then I'm stripping it completely, removing all the slag, grinding down the welds, inspecting each one, re-welding if necessary, etc. The frame might look flimsy, but it's actually much stronger than it really needs to be so It won't make much difference if I break any one joint. The only real critical welds are my front spindles. I welded the front spindle U brackets to my front axle. I'll probably bring my front axle into a shop and have them inspect it.

The rest of the frame can suffer several failures before I stop rolling since I over-engineered it so I'm not too concerned about it. -- but those front spindles I welded on are ALWAYS in the back of my mind

I'm actually looking forward to stripping everything back down to the frame and doing the detail work. Prep all of my fabricated components for paint, paint them, then carefully reassemble everything.

Adrian