[TheForge] Welding advice needed pronto

[Barking Crow]

Here's my dilemma.  A friend that I sometimes work with on remodeling jobs
wants me to turn an old 3 compartment stainless steel stand alone sink from
a restaurant that we've done a bunch of carpentry work in, into a two
compartment sink by cutting inside both walls of the middle compartment,
discarding the middle section and welding the two end compartments back
together to make a two compartment sink with an inch and a half or so piece
in the middle.  It seems to me like an incredible amount of work and that we
should just cut out side one of the walls of the middle compartment and make
it a two compartment sink that way.  He's worried that doing it that way we
loose the nice curled top edge and that I should be able to weld the pieces
back together.  Seems to me that there will be warping problems, and set up
problems not to mention the grinding and rewelding trying to make the joints
look nice, and the rust problems that will show up.  I'd be jusing my mig
with I don't remember what gas that I have for welding stainless.

Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance.   Jeff in Tallahassee where it hit 80 and i was hot in
shorts.