bertssat

Your project is a really nice one, I worked as a teen in a small engine shop, And( the owner Dan) gave me one for my gocart.

I tried at my end looking at the short videos but just get "This page isn’t workingwww.instructables.com redirected you too many times."If anyone can help me resolve this it would be appreciated, hope it just here, no deal breaker as its just a short video with lights changing colors

Thanks for comment, Speaking about galvanised metal fumes are bad. I was sanding with sandpaper at first, but found my Dremel wheel did better and faster The MOT is 120 volt, 2 volt out. If you are welding small diameter wire a wide base works fine,And much easier to position the wires. However if you wanted to spot weld two pieces of flat metal , Tips must be pointed so the energy is concentrated in a tiny spot.Bert

HiNo nothing at all else needed, I have stick welded for years, acetylene a little , I tried my stick welder several times turning heat way down to weld wire , and just failed miserably. When I saw the video posted on home made tools showing a Russian I assume) doing it with just a very basic homemade spot welder, using no flux, no wire like the wire feed, no nothing. The spot welder just sends high current, low voltage thru pieces being fused. When you watch the video of tomato cage watch carefully as soon as it starts getting hot the leg starts to drop, and that it, welded , well fused. If you leave it on too long sometimes it just burns in half. I was using small diameter coat hanger wire, and sanded tomato cages, I tried this morning spot welding copper rings for a rain chain and it j…

HiNo nothing at all else needed, I have stick welded for years, acetylene a little , I tried my stick welder several times turning heat way down to weld wire , and just failed miserably. When I saw the video posted on home made tools showing a Russian I assume) doing it with just a very basic homemade spot welder, using no flux, no wire like the wire feed, no nothing. The spot welder just sends high current, low voltage thru pieces being fused. When you watch the video of tomato cage watch carefully as soon as it starts getting hot the leg starts to drop, and that it, welded , well fused. If you leave it on too long sometimes it just burns in half. I was using small diameter coat hanger wire, and sanded tomato cages, I tried this morning spot welding copper rings for a rain chain and it just gets hot I assume too conductive as current was going around as well as thru. I will be looking for a larger transformer to accomplish that.Sorry for long answerBert

HiNo nothing at all else needed, I have stick welded for years, acetylene a little , I tried my stick welder several times turning heat way down to weld wire , and just failed miserably. When I saw the video posted on home made tools showing a Russian I assume) doing it with just a very basic homemade spot welder, using no flux, no wire like the wire feed, no nothing. The spot welder just sends high current, low voltage thru pieces being fused. When you watch the video of tomato cage watch carefully as soon as it starts getting hot the leg starts to drop, and that it, welded , well fused. If you leave it on too long sometimes it just burns in half. I was using small diameter coat hanger wire, and sanded tomato cages, I tried this morning spot welding copper rings for a rain chain and it…

HiNo nothing at all else needed, I have stick welded for years, acetylene a little , I tried my stick welder several times turning heat way down to weld wire , and just failed miserably. When I saw the video posted on home made tools showing a Russian I assume) doing it with just a very basic homemade spot welder, using no flux, no wire like the wire feed, no nothing. The spot welder just sends high current, low voltage thru pieces being fused. When you watch the video of tomato cage watch carefully as soon as it starts getting hot the leg starts to drop, and that it, welded , well fused. If you leave it on too long sometimes it just burns in half. I was using small diameter coat hanger wire, and sanded tomato cages, I tried this morning spot welding copper rings for a rain chain and it just gets hot I assume too conductive as current was going around as well as thru. I will be looking for a larger transformer to accomplish that.Sorry for long answerBert

Let me know that you made it and how you like it. No better time then today.

We really do use this a lot, Our shop is a tad bit dark and if you drop something it really lightens the search area without hunting for a working flashlight.

Thanks, It really is. Just enough heat from the Jalapeno's. Perfect on buttered toast. Its red because I only used red ones.

You could "buy" a longer cable for the throttle and attach to front brake instead, And just keep the rear brake.