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, ...

InfraTec and Volkswagen Sachsen have been working together since 2007 on non-destructive methods for quality assurance in car ...

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 ...

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 ...

The SonoWeld Series of easy-to-use, microprocessor-controlled metal welders can perform spot welds in a single pulse with repeatable accuracy. And with additional tooling, the unit can provide wire-to ...

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 ...

Spot welders are one of the very few pieces of metal working equipment that are actually very much cheaper to build yourself than to buy commercially. In fact, between salvaging a transformer out of ...

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 ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 115, Section 5: JOURNAL OF MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING (2006), pp. 517-524 (8 pages) The analytic solution of the mode I stress intensity factor for spot welds in lap-shear ...