Let’s get this in the right place and out of somebody else’s retail thread shall we.
This doesn’t go very far to explain why the part itself wasn’t a fabricated engineered part to begin with and not a hobbled together failure waiting to happen under feet. It really doesn’t matter how long the weld is if it’s a poor weld and fails. If that’s a single peice, it.. you know, fabricated… would it have failed like that?