The Eastwood kit's Speed Tip uses a heated tip that allows you to push the welding rod through it so it comes out soft and hot on the other end. Other methods include hot-gas welding, which uses hot ...

The Polyvance comes with one general-purpose standard welding tip, a teardrop welding tip, reinforcing mesh, and a wire brush ...

Last time we talked about a video that purported to do plastic welding, we mentioned that the process wasn’t really plastic welding as we understood it. Judging by the comments, many people agreed, ...

To me, this looks like a must have item for my repair arsenal. Has anyone tried it? What kind of results did you get? The one linked above uses low voltage and very high current from a small ...

The last two decades have seen substantial improvements in ultrasonic plastic-welding machines. Bench-top models feature proportional-valve controls, linear encoders, line-voltage regulation, internal ...

Non-contact laser welding offers several advantages when it comes to joining one plastic part to another. It works on the principle of partial transmission which lets a laser’s light travel through ...

When you think of welding two objects together, your first assumption may be that the objects in question are made of metal. Indeed, metal welding is the most common kind, but that doesn't mean it's ...

Welding creates problems for fleet managers because construction equipment does not fall into a neat category. A welder cannot qualify a hard-facing procedure to a structural steel welding code, for ...

Plastic welding isn’t a new idea. But a recent video from [The Maker] shows an interesting twist. Given a broken piece of plastic, he secures it together with tape, machines out a channel around the ...