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03-27-2008, 07:58 PM
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Welding with Car Batteries
This has saved us several times on the trail.
Finally found a good article on it thought I would pass it on ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just remove the two batteries from the vehicles, and hook the positive terminal on the first battery to the negative terminal on the second battery. This will hook up the two batteries in series, yielding 24 Volts of power. Once you've got the juice flowing from one battery to the next, you need to harness all those cold cranking amps and put them to work for you as a welder. For this you'll need another set of jumper cables (or a first set if you've used a battery cable to hook the two batteries in series). Hook up the negative lead of the cables to the empty negative terminal, with the other end attached to the work piece. Hook the positive cable to the empty positive terminal, with the other end clamping the electrode. At this point (after protecting your eyes, of course) you can go ahead and stike the arc to begin welding. Article is here.......... http://www.4x4wire.com/isuzu/minutemods/welder/
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03-27-2008, 11:19 PM
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That is a very good write up.
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03-27-2008, 11:26 PM
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How about 3 batteries?
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03-27-2008, 11:48 PM
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how long can you weld like that before the batteries die, on how thick of metal,and can you just use a normal welding rod?...why is the sky blue and how come its still cold out when the sun is shining,lol
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03-28-2008, 12:14 AM
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It works very well. Can be done with as many batteries as you need. The more juice you have the thicker the steel. Repaired a shackle mount on atomic ridge at Windrock this way.
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03-28-2008, 01:29 AM
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welds pretty good, was surprised....
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03-28-2008, 01:54 AM
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there are even some spool guns on the market that you can hook to the batteries. Makes it nice to be wire feed out on the trail....
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