Today, now that the steel has all arrived, all cross checked against original order list, the major task of preparing the pieces and practicing the various welds and drilling tasks is being done.
We took one of spare pieces of hollow tube (the 160mm by 80mm size) and a piece of a 10mm plate and welded it on the bottom end of the leg, and then sliced away a small section through the weld to inspect how well (or badly) it went, as you can see in the picture below, it looks very good.
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Also, the plasma cutter seems to cut the 10mm thick plate fairly easily so this means we can cut the stock size plates to the more desired sizes to fit more neatly on the framework. It is looking all good so far!