Joining one flat piece of metal to another flat piece of metal is a common requirement, but sometimes the choice of method lies open. For a case in point, please consider these two kitchen spatulas in ...

When repairing an older 4x4's bodywork, you'll occasionally find out that the path of least resistance to the repair is to remove and replace a body panel. This could be due to rust or severe damage ...

Warren — General Motors Co. believes it is the first automaker to weld steel to aluminum through resistance spot welding, a technique it spent some two years developing and expects will save weight ...

Often, when restoring or modifying a car, one must disassemble parts of the bodywork. A Sawzall® ("Tool of the Month," ec 05/02) will make a car inches or feet shorter in any direction in just minutes ...

Making battery packs is a common pursuit in our community, involving spot-welding nickel strips to the terminals on individual cells. Many a pack has been made in this way, using reclaimed 18650 cells ...

Local stress parameters (hot-spot structural stress, notch stress, stress intensity factors and J-integral) at spot welds are preferred in fatigue assessments of spotwelded structures because these ...