(ET) Shook deck apart, at least I have a welder....

[Christopher Zach <cz alembic crystel com>]

It looks like the welder may come in handy: Every once in awhile I like 
to run the batteries down to zero, then charge them up to re-sync the cells.

NOTE: I am running 60 BB600 NiCD aircraft batteries in the tractor, 
*NOT* Lead T105's. Doing this on T105's will ruin them.

Anyway, this time I ran the mower for 30 minutes along with the inverter 
powering a 300 watt halogen lamp. Gives me a nice 30a load which matches 
up well with the batteries. However this time I had the deck *up* on the 
winch with it running.

Came back an hour later. One of the deck arm mounting points had broken 
clean off. As in a perfect square of metal. It's not because the metal 
was rusted, the deck was vibrating and it literally flexed apart.

Crud. However since it's clean I should be able to fix it. Any tips on 
the type of steel I should use to fix the deck? I was thinking a square 
plate on the bottom, a square washer of steel in the middle, and another 
square plate on the top.

What size steel should I use? I have the ET welder, I'm assuming welding 
on low current will work for the thin metal of the deck.

Thanks!
Chris