Welding with Car Batteries

highlandercj-7 · 03-28-2008, 03:29 PM

I carry a welding kit consisting of a pair of cutting goggles with a shade 10 lens, a nomex hood to protect the face, welding gloves, an assortment of electrodes and a few 1' long wires with battery terminals at each end to connect 3 car batteries, then I use my HD jumper cables to weld with. 3 batteries making 36 volts works much better to get the arc to work. We welded a coil-over mount back onto my friends bronco and it worked great.

I recommend 1/8" rods because with them amps it turned the whole thing red using 1/16" rods. We burned through 6 rods and every battery still had enough juice to run there vehicles.

03-28-2008, 03:29 PM	#1
highlandercj-7 locked n' loaded Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Da Burgh' Posts: 22	I carry a welding kit consisting of a pair of cutting goggles with a shade 10 lens, a nomex hood to protect the face, welding gloves, an assortment of electrodes and a few 1' long wires with battery terminals at each end to connect 3 car batteries, then I use my HD jumper cables to weld with. 3 batteries making 36 volts works much better to get the arc to work. We welded a coil-over mount back onto my friends bronco and it worked great. I recommend 1/8" rods because with them amps it turned the whole thing red using 1/16" rods. We burned through 6 rods and every battery still had enough juice to run there vehicles.