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 ...

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 ...

If you’re really lucky, or careful for that matter, the rust on your project car will be limited to panels you can easily unbolt and replace. If, however, you decide it’s a good idea to attack a ...

After botching many welding jobs, I have established baselines for any weld I now attempt: 1. Clamp the pieces, then add more clamps. Professional welders can strategically spot weld pieces they are ...

Local stress parameters (hot-spot structural stress, notch stress, stress intensity factors and J-integral) at spot welds are preferred in fatigue assessments of spotwelded structures because these ...

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 ...

When repairing an older 4x4's bodywork, you'll occasionally find out that the path of least resistance to the repair is to remove and replace a body panel. This could be due to rust or severe damage ...

Making battery packs is a common pursuit in our community, involving spot-welding nickel strips to the terminals on individual cells. Many a pack has been made in this way, using reclaimed 18650 cells ...

Investigating dynamic spot weld behavior for computer modeling of automotive structures is an important topic for discussion. However, current FEA efforts to model spot welds as part of larger ...

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", ...