On Apr 17, 8:22*am, stryped wrote:
On Apr 17, 6:45*am, Jim Wilkins wrote:

I have never had anything really come apart that I have
welded, ...

I have, intentionally, to see how good the weld was. The welding shop
at the local high school has a 50 ton press for testing weld samples
to destruction. I didn't weld my front end loader's frame until I
could make a butt joint with 7018 that could be bend over double. At
home you can use a hydraulic jack to stretch a test structure out of
shape. Just don't get hit by flying pieces.

Jim Wilkins

Any way I can do this with a floor jack?

I was practicing on 3/16" and 1/4" plate from the school's scrap pile.
For 1/8" material you can use a vise like Iggy suggested.

Jim Wilkins