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I have been watching the cold welders on youtube for a while. I never jumped on the band wagon as they pretty much required buying from China and had to deal with the shipping crap shoot. As of late, they have become available, shipped from the states, so I jumped on board. I have a TIG and a MIG so this was going to be very ancillary for me. I started with razor blades, getting those setting downs. I can do this with my TIG, but there is heat input and you have to be very careful as to not distort. The cold welder is capacitor type welding. It's a quick snap, the puddle and surround metal is very bright/shiny with some occasional color, but mostly like polished silver. The razor blades were completely cool after stitching them together. I can see a use for this on very thin sheet metal.
You can use it as a cold spot welder or a cold pulse spot welder. The unit does normal DC welding and DC pulse, but I already have a machine that does this well, I am only interested in the "cold" aspect.
The brand I went with was Andeli (box shows from Thailand) They have many models....with MIG, Plasma, Weld cleaner, mine model is 250-MPL.
Dissimilar metals, I cold welded a sheet of copper to a steel ball. Obviously I was starting to really screw around, but I was having a blast. I by no means am saying this thing is a top notch welder. I'm not a fan of the 9 or 17 torches it came with (actually it's the hose, as I an used to CK's sure flexible hose) but they work. Changing them would take modification as it's not a dinse connector with a quick connect argon line, it's a screw on connector that the gas runs through the center of it. I'll do some picture soon when I switch to my phone for. I ended up purchasing my own 366cf bottle for my TIG so I could get another gas regulator as this uses a barb connector to supply argon.
I ended up paying about $400 for it with the amazon cash back I had saved up. I think it was easily worth that. It will be some time of playing around to find it's place in my setups, but I think a viable tool in the end. Anyone have one or experience with a cold welder?
You can use it as a cold spot welder or a cold pulse spot welder. The unit does normal DC welding and DC pulse, but I already have a machine that does this well, I am only interested in the "cold" aspect.
The brand I went with was Andeli (box shows from Thailand) They have many models....with MIG, Plasma, Weld cleaner, mine model is 250-MPL.
Dissimilar metals, I cold welded a sheet of copper to a steel ball. Obviously I was starting to really screw around, but I was having a blast. I by no means am saying this thing is a top notch welder. I'm not a fan of the 9 or 17 torches it came with (actually it's the hose, as I an used to CK's sure flexible hose) but they work. Changing them would take modification as it's not a dinse connector with a quick connect argon line, it's a screw on connector that the gas runs through the center of it. I'll do some picture soon when I switch to my phone for. I ended up purchasing my own 366cf bottle for my TIG so I could get another gas regulator as this uses a barb connector to supply argon.
I ended up paying about $400 for it with the amazon cash back I had saved up. I think it was easily worth that. It will be some time of playing around to find it's place in my setups, but I think a viable tool in the end. Anyone have one or experience with a cold welder?
