[Spits] Cutting spot welds

Doug Braun doug at dougbraun.com
Fri Aug 10 21:34:17 MDT 2012


Well, I got the new lower valence panel installed, and it looks good.  I
used a flap disk to remove those little disks, which worked fine.  The HF
spot weld cutter drill ($5.29 or so) also worked fine.  I ended up buying
and using the HF 240 volt electrical spot welder.  I had no problems with
it, either.  The only downside was that I had to completely clean both
sides of the new and existing metal, so there could be a good electrical
connection.  Annoyingly, this included having to scrape off a bunch of
undercoating and tarry sealer.

It probably wasn't worth spending the money for the welder just for this
one job, but it let me re-live the experience of using one back in 9th
grade shop class...

Doug


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