The slide hammer is "built-in", interesting idea. http://www.telwin.com/en/prodotti/?id=823219&lingua=E I am not familiar with Telwin, and I don't know if they have a distribution presence in the US. However, they have an interesting product. The only kind of stud welder I've previousl...

Mike, very impressive. Was this one of the special electrodes?

I came across a youtube video where someone removed a broken manifold stud with a stick welder using XtractAlloy. c-eWU-FsuzM "X-Tractalloy™ is a special application welding electrode designed for extracting broken bolts, studs and taps from threaded holes." ° Nonconductive flux — ceramic-...

I was just noticing the machine, doesn't look like their ext210 on the website, is this new?

I was watching this video: http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/broken-tap.html and I was sort of intrigued about the candle wax. How does that work? If you have a tap jammed in there, how does the wax flow into the threads? Then, how do you stop it from contaminating the weld so that your mushroomed...

Mike wrote:Well 480 I see this is your first post, So welcome to the forum is in order.

Thank you, I've read for a while, but decided to actually register some months ago. I was thinking about stuff I'm not sure I should have thrown away and there I had my vision - for a future video..

I know, it's a dull topic.. But sometimes it's the perfect process. I took a college class where we built a power supply, and most of the class was the sheetmetal work to accommodate it. Fast forward about 20 years... I haven't seen a spot welder since that class. However, it's still useful in many ...