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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A typical car body contains thousands of spot welds. Almost all are accomplished by robots on automated assembly lines. The ...

Just about everyone on here knows it’s quite possible to build one of these things using a re-wrapped microwave transformer, but they’re usually made of wood like the one we swap on Friday, and we ...

The Pro Spot i5s spot welder features a Universal Robots’ cobot to automated spot welding applications. The use of collaborative robots (cobots) for welding applications has been one of the most ...