I mentioned to our shop supervisor that I had posted these pictures on the forum and he asked me to tell everybody that, according to the salesman that sold this to us (by the way, this is not a Wheelabrator brand, but one of their cheaper competitors, sorry Wheelabrator), these people had received more orders than they could handle and had been forced to "sub-out" the welding operations on some of their equipment. I believe he said this particular machine had been welded at a shop in Kansas, and that after our numerous complaints these guys are no longer part of the team. I hope this shop is not building anything more than garbage bins and the like, but who knows, they could be the guys welding those nuclear containment trailers that you drive next to on the freeway everyday! The machine itself is a great design, and we use it daily with pretty good results. Most of the bad welds are just an aesthetic problem, but there were several places that were so bad the steel shot would come right out of the machine, we had to flag off the area while it was in use!