Mercy ...
<sarcasm> I'd sandblast the zinc coating from both, 'vee' the slot where the washer attaches, and perform a full penetration heliarc weld using base metal with at least 80,000 lb of tensile strength. </sarcasm>
You mean TIG (Tungsten-Inert Gas) weld it, don't you? Heli-Arc is a trademark and no one uses helium anymore anyway. They've switched to argon ;)
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.