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WELDING AND TOOLS

SPOT WELDING

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Spot welding is also known as resistance spot welding and it is the most suitable method of welding for automobiles. It has three main features: the welding can be performed instantaneously, it exercises very little effect on the mother material, and it reduces the generation of distortion to the absolute minimum. However, please remember to remove all paint and other impurities from the surface of the material you intend to weld for reliable results.

WELDING CONDITIONS

    When performing spot welding, make absolutely sure that you conform to the conditions governed by the current, conductivity time, welding pressure, holding time, and shutdown time recommended for the spot welder.
    Please bear in mind the following points when welding :

    Note : When the welding intervals are too small, this leads to branching, making it impossible to maintain the desired soldering state.
    Plate thickness
    0.6mm
    0.9mm
    1.2mm
    1.6mm
    Minimum intervals
    11mm
    16mm
    20mm
    24mm

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    Plate thickness
    0.6mm
    0.9mm
    1.2mm
    1.6mm
    Minimum intervals
    4.5Ø
    5.0Ø
    5.5Ø
    6.0Ø

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WELDING STRENGTH TEST

    Even if you perform the welding in accordance with the conditions, the strength of the welded sections may fluctuate widely with drops in the voltage and other factors. The quality of the welding cannot be evaluated unless the welded sections are destroyed.
    Provide yourself with a steel plate of the same thickness and conduct a destruction test.

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    Note : It is difficult to perform spot welding in the following circumstances.
    In all these cases, it is recommended that the gas welding method be employed. However, if it is not possible to perform spot welding because of space restrictions, plug welding based on the arc welding method may be performed instead. Here the welding sections must be close together.

GAS WELDING

Gas welding is indispensable for body repair because of the broad range of its applications from joining the body panels, cutting the materials that construct the body and applying heat to reform panels, and also because it is easy to get hold of the tools.
However, this method requires experience.

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Note : Below is an example of how not to perform gas welding, avoid operations like this.

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CARBON DIOXIDE ARCWELDER(MIG ARC WELDING)

This welding process uses inexpensive carbon dioxide instead of expensive inert gases as a shielding means. Consumable metal electrodes are employed. It has a wide range of applications, including butt welding of thin plate, fillet welding, plug welding, and MIG spot welding. In terms of the weld strength, it is also highly stable.

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REPAIR TOOLS

Item
Work
Tools. equipment used
Protective tools
Operator

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Vehicle body

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Processing tools
Plug hole
drilling

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Fixing tools
Base metal fixing

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Shaping tools
Skin panel shaping

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Body, frame shaping

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Measuring tools
Measuring

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Flange tools
Edge preparation

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Cutting tools
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Sanding tools
Cleaning

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