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Old 08-14-2012, 02:05 PM
TonyH TonyH is offline
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That's a jewelry welder; capacitive discharge made by Orion of Sunstone Engineering. It does tack welding of sorts and also has a spot tig'ish weld.

Very expensive and not all that useful really unless of course you work with jewelry. My favorite welder for that sort of thing is one I made with 2 transformers from microwaves. You take out the secondary windings and replace with #4 welding cable. Presto, tack spot welder for super thin stuff and .045 wire. I put a timer on it to control the weld time. $70 bucks. Instead of $4,500.
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