Beef’ed up TA’s with 1/8” plate both sides. Was also going to add a 1/4x1/4” safety loop, but decided not too. These were welded 360deg and small plates filled in the sides.
Yeah, the fixture is kind of red-neck, but had seen someone else doing this so went for it. I used a transfer punch that was a tight fit in the original threads to line up the chuck and verify it was straight.