After carefully milling end to be square and make pieces equal length, I can tell when clamping them up that, distortion or not, there's no way these will be flat and square enough. Sure many out there could've already told me, but steel like this just isn't clean enough as is.

There's a shop close that has huge Blanchard grinder and would grind for reasonable price. But, I think if you start grinding on this stuff it's going to spring all over the place as stresses get relieved.

Time to start reading up on epoxy!

Regards,
Wallace