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It appears he made a transformer. (hi voltage low amperage in, low voltage high amperage out. Cut open one on a power pole and it looks just like that just less ghetto. The salt water trick I would need some more explanation to understand. That is the sort of caveman creativity us western societies haven't needed to tap into for quite some time. Having to make do with **** is some poor countries way of life. Better them than me.
I did a google search for "salt water resistor" and came up with a few things like this: http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/hv/rwater.htm http://www.tommyatkinsonbooks.com/never%20do.htm
Bet he's getting a bad case of flash burn from the whole deal. No gloves, and I don't think a helmet (judging from the 3rd picture)
Good grief it wasn't til the 2nd pic that I even knew what the hell I was looking at. All he's missing is the Harbor Freight sheet metal around the outside. LOL I don't think I would use that set up in the rain (or dry). I've heard stories of being able to weld with a car battery ,jumper cables and a stick electrode, never seen it done though.
I've seen articles on how to do that in car performance magazines from Japan... within the last 2 years too! They used 2 batteries in series
Quote: "Good grief it wasn't til the 2nd pic that I even knew what the hell I was looking at. All he's missing is the Harbor Freight sheet metal around the outside. LOL I don't think I would use that set up in the rain (or dry). I've heard stories of being able to weld with a car battery ,jumper cables and a stick electrode, never seen it done though." Those are actually HF techs tesing out their new lightweight series of welders! <!-- / message -->
The battery thing works in a pinch. A friend of mine's offroad rig busted a rear axle link (where it met the axle housing) following my rig though some large rocks. The axle walked out a full tire width and took out one of his coilovers. We were out in the middle of nowhere and needed to get his rig out. We wired 3 car batteries (we originally tried 2 but it wouldn't penetrate the housing well enough) in series behind a rock with jumper cables (so that if something would happen we wouldn't get hit with battery acid) and welded the mount back to housing with some weld rod that one of the other guys had with him. I worked great... not that I would want to do it again!!!! A highlift jack amazingly bolted in place of the busted coilover and we got his rig back to the trailhead with his semi ridged suspension.
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