Spot welders......

[Bob Carriere]

Advice from those who have used one.....

Bought a Miller hand held spot welder.... model 52 ...works on 220 volts..... can do 3/16 thick combination.....

Tried it for the first time last weekend..... it is a tremendous and fantastic 3/16 hole punch.

Can't seem to make it work right.... even read the instructions.

Tends to burn holes. Played with the settings such as pressure...tip alignments.... and duration of applied power..... same poor results.

The welder has a momemtary toggel switch to apply power...... just need to tap it on off for a fraction of a second..... and it still burns holes...

Phil... I know you have one and you used it on cab sheet metal around 18 G

What is your secret..? how do you control the duration of power...?

One of the obvious solution is to go back to the vendor and purchase an expensive $400 in line timer that will control heat to the fraction of a second... would rather spend my $$ on CMP trucks....

Will do some pictures this weekend...

Bob