I have been looking into making chainmail as art... long story... any way to make the links for the chainmail I wrap wire around a steel rod cut off a bunch of loops and just close the gap where the cut was made. Do you think a spot welder could join the ends of the wire to finish the link after it has been added to what ever I a making with out joining the link to any of the other links?
100% yes. That is how they make modern chain. You would have to pinch the link shut using the spot welder electrodes and then give it some power until you see that it has welded.
@MrAwsome514 The hard part is to make a good clamp to make contact to the sides and press them together, and a clamp that you can use 10 times in a minute easily or it will take forever (I have made a butted chainmail, I know how long it takes to make anything 8000 times). Then you need enough current to make the weld while more than half of the amps are going through the wrong side of the ring (i.e. you need more current than needed for joining two pieces)
@MrAwsome514 so dare I ask how it went? do yo uhave any tips for someone else trying that cause I am looking into this method for the same reasons you did
@MrAwsome514 wel the wire will me relitivly small so a homade tack welder like this but with less amps would probibly work altho it will take forever!
@MrAwsome514 well it dosnt releas the toxic gas until it is heated to the point it starts to burn .. with this you will reach that point but it wont realse as mutch gas as it could... if you do use galvinised then do it with an exost fan sucking it away from you in the open and if you keep getting wifs of it then get a chemical respirator because my the end of you million links you would have lung failure... but if you do what i say nothing bad will happen
@MrStemkilla Just as art. Though I think I have a weave that could stop a 9mm round. Maybe even a .44 if it was welded. Ofcourse since chainmail is flexable it would still feel like you have been hit by the nose cone of a hypersonic jet at twice the speed of sound. But still...
@MrAwsome514 oh that would be pritty cool also since it would be lighter than meany vests and more minuverable try puting kevlar underneeth it to disburs the energy more if you get it welded.. so are you makeing it to stop bullets or art?
o.o I made another and, my clamp meter says 1100 amps dead short, and 640 amps under spot welding, but I cannot get a weld to stick :/ how could 640 amps not weld lol...
You need to use A LOT of pressure when you make the weld and some metals just don't like to stick. You can probably look up what metals do and don't work for spot welding.
@BasementBen 640 A might seem a lot but spot welders often go up to 64KA for thick stuff. Try to weld thinner metal and see if it does stick (stainless foil for example). Peeling a good weld should result in the spot ripped away from one side but not unwelding (i.e. you have a round hole left on one of the pieces)
People come here to learn. And it is not meant to be a slight toward you at all. Maybe, your future uploads could be in several parts? Concept, materials, assembly and then the demonstration. Total costs and experienced problems would help a lot as well. Keep up the great efforts.
When you post these videos, there needs to be a story. Showing us this doesn't accomplish anything. We didn't learn anything. How did you do it? How much and what kind of hardware did it take? This is where the details come into play. Show us some cool and clever shit. How can we do it?
When there is such a low voltage, you can get an extremely high amperage with thick cable in the transformer, and shorting 1000 amps through metal will instanly weld it withought any dangerous UV radiation. Hope that helps...
Ok, transformers work by wire coil windings, the more windings, the higher the voltage. So microwave transformers have thousands of windings and it ends up with thousands of volts out. So what can be done is cutting off the thousands of windings and replacing it with 4 windings of very thick 2 gauge wire. And since 2 guage wire is sooo thick, it will carry huge amounts of current and that shorts through the metal and welds it. And 4 windings will be about 4 volts. Hope this helps. Thanks.
thats a salad tossing bowl right there.
MrSEEbeeARE 1 day ago
wat is at the end of the copper pipe? tungstun?
hobomnky 7 months ago
lol..good one..
blueshadow1996 9 months ago
You gave an idea on how to make handheld electrodes...with scrapped copper tubes!
marcheseDS 1 year ago
how much current would i need to weld 2x 1mm steel together?
superemposed 1 year ago
I have been looking into making chainmail as art... long story... any way to make the links for the chainmail I wrap wire around a steel rod cut off a bunch of loops and just close the gap where the cut was made. Do you think a spot welder could join the ends of the wire to finish the link after it has been added to what ever I a making with out joining the link to any of the other links?
MrAwsome514 1 year ago
@MrAwsome514
100% yes. That is how they make modern chain. You would have to pinch the link shut using the spot welder electrodes and then give it some power until you see that it has welded.
nik282000 1 year ago
@MrAwsome514 The hard part is to make a good clamp to make contact to the sides and press them together, and a clamp that you can use 10 times in a minute easily or it will take forever (I have made a butted chainmail, I know how long it takes to make anything 8000 times). Then you need enough current to make the weld while more than half of the amps are going through the wrong side of the ring (i.e. you need more current than needed for joining two pieces)
marcheseDS 1 year ago
@MrAwsome514 so dare I ask how it went? do yo uhave any tips for someone else trying that cause I am looking into this method for the same reasons you did
lockbreak12 9 months ago
@lockbreak12 Never got it working quite right. I ended up getting more interested in making abstract origami sculptures.
MrAwsome514 9 months ago
@MrAwsome514 drat
lockbreak12 9 months ago
@MrAwsome514 wel the wire will me relitivly small so a homade tack welder like this but with less amps would probibly work altho it will take forever!
MrStemkilla 8 months ago
@MrStemkilla Even then I use galvanized wire so I would have to take precautions because it releases toxic gasses when heated.
MrAwsome514 8 months ago
@MrAwsome514 well it dosnt releas the toxic gas until it is heated to the point it starts to burn .. with this you will reach that point but it wont realse as mutch gas as it could... if you do use galvinised then do it with an exost fan sucking it away from you in the open and if you keep getting wifs of it then get a chemical respirator because my the end of you million links you would have lung failure... but if you do what i say nothing bad will happen
MrStemkilla 8 months ago
@MrAwsome514 what are you making it for anyway ? if i had it i would kill x wife... she is bare (insert Russian accent here)
MrStemkilla 8 months ago
@MrStemkilla Just as art. Though I think I have a weave that could stop a 9mm round. Maybe even a .44 if it was welded. Ofcourse since chainmail is flexable it would still feel like you have been hit by the nose cone of a hypersonic jet at twice the speed of sound. But still...
MrAwsome514 8 months ago
@MrAwsome514 oh that would be pritty cool also since it would be lighter than meany vests and more minuverable try puting kevlar underneeth it to disburs the energy more if you get it welded.. so are you makeing it to stop bullets or art?
MrStemkilla 8 months ago
@MrStemkilla For art.
MrAwsome514 8 months ago
HAHAHAH its pac man LOL well kind of
67tr876 1 year ago
Mom is really going to be upset when she finds out what you did to her stuff
24preacherboy 1 year ago 10
o.o I made another and, my clamp meter says 1100 amps dead short, and 640 amps under spot welding, but I cannot get a weld to stick :/ how could 640 amps not weld lol...
BasementBen 2 years ago
@BasementBen
You need to use A LOT of pressure when you make the weld and some metals just don't like to stick. You can probably look up what metals do and don't work for spot welding.
nik282000 2 years ago
@BasementBen 640 A might seem a lot but spot welders often go up to 64KA for thick stuff. Try to weld thinner metal and see if it does stick (stainless foil for example). Peeling a good weld should result in the spot ripped away from one side but not unwelding (i.e. you have a round hole left on one of the pieces)
marcheseDS 1 year ago
Your Mum's gonna f**king kill you!
wigwamabama 2 years ago 21
People come here to learn. And it is not meant to be a slight toward you at all. Maybe, your future uploads could be in several parts? Concept, materials, assembly and then the demonstration. Total costs and experienced problems would help a lot as well. Keep up the great efforts.
themainproblem 2 years ago
When you post these videos, there needs to be a story. Showing us this doesn't accomplish anything. We didn't learn anything. How did you do it? How much and what kind of hardware did it take? This is where the details come into play. Show us some cool and clever shit. How can we do it?
themainproblem 2 years ago
hes welded 2 hats together thats clever
hanghoodiescum 2 years ago
hes makin number 19 cha su with boiled rice
hanghoodiescum 2 years ago
are you building metal pac mans! if so I'm in :P
shawnio 2 years ago
I hope those where not your mother's of wife's pots.
marcibb 3 years ago 2
BAHAHHAHA.... Thats the kinda shit divorces happen over.
redsamuraidragon 2 years ago
cool it only uses 1.4 volts can you uses it at 2 volts and how does this work
ford1979truck 3 years ago
When there is such a low voltage, you can get an extremely high amperage with thick cable in the transformer, and shorting 1000 amps through metal will instanly weld it withought any dangerous UV radiation. Hope that helps...
Ben.
BasementBen 3 years ago
i am still lost about it ..
ford1979truck 3 years ago
Ok, transformers work by wire coil windings, the more windings, the higher the voltage. So microwave transformers have thousands of windings and it ends up with thousands of volts out. So what can be done is cutting off the thousands of windings and replacing it with 4 windings of very thick 2 gauge wire. And since 2 guage wire is sooo thick, it will carry huge amounts of current and that shorts through the metal and welds it. And 4 windings will be about 4 volts. Hope this helps. Thanks.
Ben
BasementBen 3 years ago
1000 amps, that would have melted it, its not more then 300
thepaashaas 3 years ago
Well, that is what im going bye from the guy who made video. Probly not that High, your right.
BasementBen 3 years ago
Nice! :D What kind of transformer did you use? a MOT?
c4r0hv 3 years ago
needs more murder
snownet 3 years ago