gasket999
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Hi folks - not normally one for a gimmick, but this one caught my eye.
I do a lot of car body repairs and like most people, use puddle welds to replace factory spots. But occasionally I have to put spots on exposed cabin steelwork and it would be great to be able to re-create factory dimpled spotwelds without a gigantic spotwelder.
This kit though highly priced, looks like it might do the job. I could use the arbor or knock up a second set of molegrips with a dimple welded on a jaw to let me create the dimple before using this kit (or the alternative method of simply reversing the tungsten) to create the welded join.
Anyone have any experience with this and know if its comparable in strength to a factory compression spot weld given similar penetration to that shown in the video?
As a bonus follow up, I'd be interested to see if the same technique could be used in joining two sheets of 1.2mm aluminium with a home ac/dc tig set (160-200amp - TBC as about to purchase)
I do a lot of car body repairs and like most people, use puddle welds to replace factory spots. But occasionally I have to put spots on exposed cabin steelwork and it would be great to be able to re-create factory dimpled spotwelds without a gigantic spotwelder.
This kit though highly priced, looks like it might do the job. I could use the arbor or knock up a second set of molegrips with a dimple welded on a jaw to let me create the dimple before using this kit (or the alternative method of simply reversing the tungsten) to create the welded join.
Anyone have any experience with this and know if its comparable in strength to a factory compression spot weld given similar penetration to that shown in the video?
As a bonus follow up, I'd be interested to see if the same technique could be used in joining two sheets of 1.2mm aluminium with a home ac/dc tig set (160-200amp - TBC as about to purchase)