Spot welder upgrades 

One could say that its the AvE school of approach, but with much less ``quality and endurance testing`` if the object in question...

@@camillosteuss AvE would leave it for the pixies - Jeremy actually makes it work better (at least for his use case) - an inspiring man!

Don't you have a lathe to work on?? Stop watching youtube videos and get to it :)

@@mumblbeebee6546 i agree, but keep in mind that ave isnt an imbecile... he makes content through destructive approach to tools, as a form of quality inspection, not as a review of a personal tool he got for his own uses... Now the fact that his lathe and mill when seen are an absolute mess makes that point a bit shaky, but that notwithstanding, ave is a man of intelligence and practical skill, and i have learned immensely much from him, watching him for last 12 years... mostly in regards to material chemistry, but in other areas aswell... That is not to say that i am not enjoying Jezza greatly... In fact, it was AvE, over a decade ago that first peaked my love for machinery and started me on the path of actively learning about machining in my own time, and now i actually am a machinist, over a decade later or so...

Yeah, Ave is who inspired me to get a mill back when he was more a manual machining channel

😂 starter kits. I love it!

One is basically welded to the screen!

*zaps

Tacky, tacky, tacky!

Totally agreed, that was smart!

😂😂😂

All my 240v outlets are 6-20 outlets- they were put in for my CNC router, mill, lathe, etc. at some point I’ll need to add a 50amp outlet for EV charging, and then I’ll swap the welders over to that, but for now it works.

It was more awkward than heavy. It’s much less awkward now.

@@JeremyMakesThings And the handle should outlast the tool by at least a couple thousand years!

So one of the tongs is actually connected directly to the case- so the whole case is “live” but you would have to touch the other tong to complete the circuit. The reason it’s not dangerous is the voltage is so low on the “hot” end (maybe 1 or 2 volts) that it wouldn’t overcome the resistance of your skin. If the line voltage side shorts out….that side is grounded, and you would still be holding some other metal part of it anyway, so I don’t think trying to insulate the new handle would be necessary. Might be more comfortable though.

“Do you want the two year protection plan.” “Uh, no thanks.”

I didn’t bend them, I just made threaded extensions for the existing tongs.

@@JeremyMakesThings Ahh makes sense, thanks!

Did you actually watch the video?!?

​@@Voo_Doo_Blue thanks for the jerk off comment, wasn't initially clear to me that he only tapped, so I asked. But well done with shaming people for asking a question. Goof

It’s so gummy!

So the tips are replaceable, but the tongs are still copper. I think if they could use something cheaper, they would. I believe it has to do with copper having a very low resistance and the high amperage this thing is pushing through them, so I figured it was best to stick with what I knew would work.

It requires a lot of amps (at a very low voltage) to make a decent spot weld so you need ALL of the conductivity you can get, especially with a 'lightweight' machine like in the video that doesn't have a huge transformer creating thousands of amps.

Snyder

Got 5/8” rebound copper rod from EBay, and then just threaded them to mate to the existing tongs as shown.

Did you actually watch the video?!?

The spot welder only outputs a couple volts, so even the slight resistance of lengthy copper leads is enough to drastically reduce the welding current.

You do not have the arm strength to push two pieces of metal together for a proper SPOT WELD. Spot Welding What is spot welding? Simply defined, spot welding is “the welding of overlapping pieces of metal at small points by application of pressure and electric current.” How to spot weld? Spot Welding occurs in three stages: Electrodes seated in a weld head are brought to the surface of the parts to be joined and force (pressure) is applied Current is applied through the electrodes to the workpiece to melt the material Current is removed but electrodes remain in place at force to allow the material to cool and solidify Spot welding times range from 0.01 sec to 0.63 sec depending on the thickness of the metal, the electrode force and the diameter of the electrodes themselves.

It would not work for copper, only steel.

@@JeremyMakesThings Thank you very much

Not sure, I’ve only tasted blue.

Ooh, I can see that happening. With as simple as this thing is, that’s probably about the only way to kill it.

I’ve got an older Miller spot welder with a timer. It was in the scrap pile, needed new power cords before I could use it, and ironically (cupronically?) the long offset tongs that I wish were shorter!

www.harborfreight.com/welding/welders/stud-spot-welders/240v-spot-welder-61206.html

Yes, it has the shim as well