Microwave oven transformer spot welder builds are about as common as Nixie tube clocks around here. But this spot welder is anything but common, and it has some great lessons about manufacturing ...

Spot welders are one of the very few pieces of metal working equipment that are actually very much cheaper to build yourself than to buy commercially. In fact, between salvaging a transformer out of ...

Salvage the microwave oven transformer (MOT) by discharging the lethal capacitor, unwinding the high-voltage secondary coil, ...

The project illustrates how to build a homemade spot welder which can be used for welding two pieces of metal together by producing a highly defined point of contact weld and using a microwave oven ...