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    Build your own CD battery tab welder for about $100.00+-

    Thanks Texas. I have all parts ordered and I will be starting my build at the start of next month. I will be sure to keep the forum updated on my progress.
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    Build your own CD battery tab welder for about $100.00+-

    When you say molybdenum, is that an alloy of, or 100% rod? I saw some nice thicker rods of 100% on ebay that would fit my application very well. Another question for now, is if anyone has tried on any welds on silver, sterling in particular. I am guessing that I will do an inital build with...
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    Build your own CD battery tab welder for about $100.00+-

    I was also playing with the idea of including the option to power different banks of caps with different power supplies, it would nice to make a very versatile, simple design robust enough to be able to experiment with. I would then be able to set up some tables for usability and perhaps a few...
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    Build your own CD battery tab welder for about $100.00+-

    dbird - To mount the puck scr, in the spirit of this forum(cheap and easy) what about finding some seriously overbuilt heatsinks, then just putting some over built, over sized hose clamps to apply the force, a little insulation to prevent arcing of the current, or dare I say seriously...
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    Build your own CD battery tab welder for about $100.00+-

    Wow, I guess I read a little to much without asking the questions... now I feel like I am playing catch up... Would anyone know if it would be worth investing in silver plated wire for the welding circuit? I just found some on ebay and though it could be nice. $25 for 5 feet of 6gu or $25 for 1...
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    Build your own CD battery tab welder for about $100.00+-

    Ah one more thing, can I have multiple banks of caps go through separate scrs to the same bus bar then to electrodes then to ground or will there be a chance of burning out a scr from the amperage of an adjacent one fired before/after? Hope that question doesn't give me away as to much of a...
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    Build your own CD battery tab welder for about $100.00+-

    Hello all, I would like to start off by thanking everyone who has been participating in this discussion. I have read every comment on every one of the 53 pages so far. and I am impressed with how dedicated this community has been in brainstorming and solving these problems. As it works out I...
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