Please give us more details, I have no idea what someone was trying to do, but it made me cringe non the less.
rewelding a cast frame never works out so well.
John Wayne summed it up and said it best ....
Shame, cant even be used as a nice paper-weight either.
If walther didn't make their slides from compressed robot turds there wouldn't be a problem to begin with...
It's more than just cracked now!! It could be done but with proper gas shielding, carbon strips, preheated and a mig gun. Then the inner rails would have to be re-machined. In 33 years of welding the only thing that is impossible to weld is a cast aluminum sewing machine base, that is saturated with mineral oil all the way through.
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