STRIPES
\\\STRIPES/// going to the HD shop.
I blew my Brute pipe apart once. Perhap one of the spring was not seated well.I think the weld complaints are cute. To a welder maybe they look bad, personally I see nothing wrong them in the slightest, pipes are proven to make incredible power and as last as far as I have seen, not a single complaint that Carpenter exhausts fall apart from bad welds.
Springs - Springs are used on some of the most expensive, well regarded, exhaust systems on the planet on motorcycles. Nothing new, nothing odd, nothing questionable about them.