A Battery Spot Welder Made from an Old Microwave and Excessive Mahogany [video]

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Post by CaliforniaKarl » Thu, Sep 09, 2021, 11:23 PM UTC

A Battery Spot Welder Made from an Old Microwave and Excessive Mahogany [video]
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Post by hughrr » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 7:12 PM UTC

I think I’d have just hit aliexpress and bought a battery welder for $30 shipped.

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Post by anfractuosity » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 7:20 PM UTC

I quite fancy getting a microwave oven transformer to make a pretty powerful electromagnet.

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Post by jandrese » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 7:21 PM UTC

hughrr wrote: post #2

I think I’d have just hit aliexpress and bought a battery welder for $30 shipped.

This homemade one bodged out of a broken microwave is probably safer.

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Post by progre » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 7:21 PM UTC

hughrr wrote: post #2

I think I’d have just hit aliexpress and bought a battery welder for $30 shipped.

What's the fun in that?

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Post by ziml77 » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 7:29 PM UTC

LTT has a video on a very simple battery powered battery spot welder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHNmVV7THBs

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Post by blahblah23 » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 7:50 PM UTC

Isn't it incredibly dangerous to disassemble microwaves?

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Post by cronix » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 7:58 PM UTC

blahblah23 wrote: post #7

Isn't it incredibly dangerous to disassemble microwaves?

Absolutely, for people who do not know what they are doing. Anything with high voltage capacitors is dangerous unless you know how to safely discharge them, and the magnetron in microwaves specifically.

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Post by rcoumet » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 8:01 PM UTC

blahblah23 wrote: post #7

Isn't it incredibly dangerous to disassemble microwaves?

No, it's not.

Just basic safety around capacitor, don't take a deep breath around the magnetron or shatter it / grind it into fine dust, and you'll be fine.

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Post by rcoumet » Fri, Sep 10, 2021, 8:02 PM UTC

cronix wrote: post #8

blahblah23 wrote: post #7

Isn't it incredibly dangerous to disassemble microwaves?

Absolutely, for people who do not know what they are doing. Anything with high voltage capacitors is dangerous unless you know how to safely discharge them, and the magnetron in microwaves specifically.

This is borderline FUD, just like people arguing that kernel programming is dangerous, when it's just another programming environment.