Spot welding looks simple and easy until your products fall apart while being delivered to the job site. When that happened to one contractor several years ago, spot welding suddenly took on a whole ...

Joining one flat piece of metal to another flat piece of metal is a common requirement, but sometimes the choice of method lies open. For a case in point, please consider these two kitchen spatulas in ...

On the face of it, a spot welder is a simple device. If you dump enough current through two pieces of metal very quickly, they’ll heat up enough to melt and fuse together. But as with many things, the ...

Often, when restoring or modifying a car, one must disassemble parts of the bodywork. A Sawzall® ("Tool of the Month," ec 05/02) will make a car inches or feet shorter in any direction in just minutes ...

Most enthusiasts don't like to waste parts or pay for something they don't need, so the idea of buying a replacement sheet metal part with the intention of only using a portion of it may feel ...

The HTP Spot Mill is designed to drill out spot welds quickly without drilling through both panels. The tool, which has a hardened cobalt-steel bullet-point drill bit, has a depth of cut that can be ...

Raise you’re hand if you’ve ever soldered directly to a battery even though you know better. We’ve all been there. Sometimes we get away with it when we have a small pack and don’t care about ...

The causes of failure due to cracking in the resistance spot welding of the advanced high-strength steels dual-phase 590 (DP590) were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), optical ...

Assume that you want to just fasten a small cube of steel onto another steel object using a weld - what word would you use to describe the little blob of a weld you put there?<BR><BR>Not "spot weld", ...