Today I have a crazy experiment. I did another attempt at welding aluminum
foil a while back. That was successful.
I wanted to know how thin of aluminum foil I could weld together.
And the thinnest I can find is the stuff on gum wrappers.
The problem with the gum wrapper is that is has paper on 1 side.
Got to put the two aluminum foil sides together and try to weld through the paper.
And see if that works. Again the equipment is a power supply. I'm
using a stick pin from sewing as my welding stick.
And of course the proper welding mask to shield my eyes.
Get to it. See if this happens.
Let's see if this happens. Got a little bit of a spark.
Let's see if it happened.
Nope. Not happening. Try again with this a little different.
Position it correctly and all.
I'm poking through the paper. That's when I get the spark.
The ground is connected directly to the lower wrapper.
And not happening.
You probably can not see, but there's no welding
happening. I am perforating the paper, getting sparking,
but no welding. I will have to go away and rethink it.
And see what happens.
(sound of sparking)
1 Trick is to hold them flat and together.
Let's see what we've got.
Got some welding. Kind of fragile but it's there.
With some work, you could get some significant spot welding going on.
There you have it. Welding together gum wrapper aluminum.
Just for fun. Hope you've enjoyed it.
Hope you found it interesting. Thanks for watching.