I've seen far worse practices. Nor am I sure what YGR did. I'm also assuming he did the press and weld like 99% would have done. I can tell you for certain I've pushed some multiple cyld cranks back together that the welds were broke on that the crack lined right back up and I called it good after another high amperage weld.
He came upstairs about 10 minutes ago. Said he and Dave have been working on a bike on the weekends for almost a month for him to ride. I think Dave is holding out on us about his and skeets weekend affairs.