I have an opportunity to get my hands on a welder, but its a "spot" welder.

How is this different than a normal one? Would i be able to weld, say, downpipes with this welder?

any help is appreciated.

 

spot welder? aren't those the kind you just step on, and two points come together and weld two pieces of sheet metal?

b/c all types of welders can spot weld, i think it's where you just tack it on, or is that a tack welder?....

i dunno, someone help this guy out.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by s1ngle &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I have an opportunity to get my hands on a welder, but its a "spot" welder.

How is this different than a normal one? Would i be able to weld, say, downpipes with this welder?

any help is appreciated.</TD></TR></TABLE>


Im no expert on welding by any means. Im young, and havnt been
around a lot of it, so im not too sure as to whats all out there. I didnt
know there was a specific machine just for spotwelds that any normal
person would have. Seems like more of a body shop applications.

I know you wont be able to weld downpipes and exausts, you would
need a constant beed, where the spotwelder would be just a spotweld,
like you find on your firewall.

Thats assuming the "spotwelder" can only be used for spotwelds.

 

A spot welder will have a big set of arms that reaches around sheet metal so it can spot weld them together.

It is just used to join sheetmetal together; it is more than likely not what you want.

 

You will want a mig welder to weld downpipes and stuff

 

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Any type of welder will work fine for welding small diameter steel tubing. TIG will always be the cleanest, and since most mandrel pipes ppl buy are aluminized steel, the MIG will have to have the correct wire/gas in it.

TIG

 

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TIG </TD></TR></TABLE>

definitely, if you have the green