I heard somebody say this one time, and I have been curious ever since. Can somebody please explain EXACTLY what this is. Thanks....

 

When you get a weld that holds together, but didn't get complete heat penetration between the 2 parts being affixed to each other, you get a cold weld. It's just a weak weld due to lack of heat.

 

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yeah pretty much. just not hot enough, usually a quick visual way to tell it the weld is raised and roundish, where as a good weld with enough penetration is pretty flat.

 

Thanks for the explaination...I also did not have a clue what my neighbor was talking about.

 

A good way to avoid cold welds is to bevel whatever peices your adjoining and turn up the amps.

 

Cool guys thanks for the help...

 

huh? I always though cold weld was pretty much epoxy or some ****!? Go to kragen and as for some cold weld and they will show you bunch of epoxy's and that's what a bunch of manufacturer's call their product too! Correct me if I'm wrong though...just throwing out my .02

 

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you are correct,but the term is also used to describe a certain type of welding problem as described above.
Chris

 

k, I wast just curious also if it had two meaning o sumthin.

 

k