Can you turn one of the most frustrating parts of any automotive restoration into one of the most fun? Removing the spot welds prior to replacing rusted out panels is usually not fun. What it is, ...

Hackaday reader [David] was looking for a cheap and easy way to spot weld copper tabs together. As he notes in his writeup, the properties of copper which are most enticing, such as high thermal ...

It’s no secret that Honda builds some of the safest vehicles on the road today. Their products consistently perform well in both NHTSA and IIHS crash tests. A lot of work goes into earning these ...

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 ...

DIY spot welders often use high-powered components that can be a bit frightening, given the potential for dangerous malfunctions. [Wojciech “Adalbert” J.] designed his capacitive discharge spot welder ...

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 ...

Warren — General Motors Co. believes it is the first automaker to weld steel to aluminum through resistance spot welding, a technique it spent some two years developing and expects will save weight ...

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 ...

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A closeup of the mesh and weld area shows a natural mismatch in element size and location that makes traditional weld-modeling methods difficult. A newly invented FEA weld element in MSC.Nastran lets ...