On 7/25/2013 12:23 PM, veegee wrote:
> On 2013-07-25 8:36 AM, Mark Hanchey wrote:
>> On 7/24/2013 10:36 PM, John Gardner wrote:
>> Yeah car battery sourced welding is fairly powerful. People who like to
>> take 4x4 trucks far out into the country sometimes  have broken parts of
>> the truck  and being so far out it is hard to get a tow back to a
>> garage, they have used the batteries with welding rods to do repairs.
>> The practice is so well known that people keep welding rods in the truck=
s.
> I think you're referring to arc welding, which is a completely different
> concept than spot welding.

This is what I was referring to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsjH8I1oKNMY

I wasn't suggesting a car battery be used for welding battery tabs but=20
advising the poster about
how a car battery welding setup is powerful enough to weld steel.
I would compare it to using a pneumatic hammer to push in a thumbtack.
Mark

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