Today I'd like to talk a little bit about lap welding Autobody sheet metal
and the one thing that I found made this job a lot easier for me through the
years... and that is to use the lap as a guide to welding so when I put a
spot weld on this lap I'm gonna run this welder right into that
lap joint...right there... and I use that as a guide so then when I go to weld I just
find that and then I know my spot weld is gonna be exactly centered right where
I want it. So put it there... 45 degree angle - bang... put it there, 45
degree angle... zap zap zap zap zap zap zap zap zap all the way along. Another thing
is you can roll the welder if you'd like or you can turn the welder or trigger a
little bit to extend the spot weld into a stitch weld. So let me get the welder
set up and I'll be back.
Okay, so let's give this a try. The welder is set up for welding auto body sheet
metal and again I'm just gonna use the lap as a guide and the camera is set so
that it will darken when the welds take place so hopefully it helps you to see
the weld better so here we go. 45 degree angle and using the lap as a
guide... so I'm going to stick it right there and I'm just gonna hold a trigger
for about one second.
and I keep using that as a guide
Now, those are just spot-welds. If you want to change it to sort of a stitch
weld you can start out here and twist the handle. So we start out here and roll
it a little bit and it sort of turns into a stitch weld. So we'll start out
here... roll it... turn it into a stitch weld
now that one's got a little bit of a weird thing that happened to it. We'll do
it again and the same with that one! That one's better so I think I had the angle
too much of an angle. We're gonna go more of a 45-degree angle... use that lap
as a guide, hit it and twist and there we go.
Sort of a stitch weld. 45 degree angle start over here roll it and that one's
sort of messed up a little bit but it still looks good. And there we go.
So I hope this one important tip helped you to make better stitch welds... better
spot welds on automotive auto body sheet metal and if you did enjoy the video
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