Quote Originally Posted by August Mariner View Post
As a student I am asking: On Post #219 was it possible to mig weld and file the problem area? Why cut the area out?

That would have been a viable option had I looked at it a bit closer. With any damage that even remotely suggests rust, I tend to lean more toward cut out and replace. Where this wasn't a clear cut rust issue, I had made these drip rails previously, so I felt the end result would be better once some cutting opened the area for exploratory poking around to see how structurally sound that area actually was.