By John Kruger on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 06:39 am: Edit

Has anyone here run from their battery directly to their stinger to weld in the field?

By Bluegill (Bluegill) on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 07:06 am: Edit

I've seen it done with about 3 or 4 optimas connected together. It wasn't pretty, just a last ditch effort to get a rustbucket jeep home.

By peter matusov on Tuesday, October 02, 2001 - 07:09 am: Edit

my only welding experience was to tack-weld a retaining ring to an AMC-20 axleshaft with one Optima... it held together. But - if you do it,
disconnect everything else from the battery,
or you may fry some sensitive electronics.

peter

By Ali on Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 09:19 am: Edit

I used three Optimas in series to lay on a very long bead. My trailing arm got bent at Fordyce Creek last year. Ended up using a concrete anchor cut to length and welded it solid the entire length on both sides. It's still holding together...a bit rusted of course. The Optimas held up fine.

By Brett Gottdener on Thursday, October 04, 2001 - 01:52 pm: Edit

Will a 110 volt, flux-cored, mig welder work like this?

I have one of these, and have always wondered about this. How does it work?