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My old stud welder just quit on me in the middle of a quarter panel job
It happened this morning on a 2015 Civic I'm fixing. I was pulling a dent, had the slide hammer hooked up, and it just clicked and died. No smoke, no smell, just dead. I had to finish the pull with my old manual dent puller, which took three times as long. Has anyone else had a stud welder fail like that, and is it usually worth trying to fix or just replace?
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the_lisa2mo ago
Ugh, that's the worst. Sounds like a control board or maybe the foot pedal switch gave up. I had a cheap one do that, just a quiet click and then nothing. Took it apart and found a cracked solder joint on the main relay. Fixed it in ten minutes with a soldering iron. But if it's the transformer itself, that's usually a lost cause and not worth the hassle. Honestly, for a 2015 Civic job, I'd just get a new one and save the headache.
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the_richard2mo ago
My buddy tried to fix his old one last year. He spent a whole weekend tracing wires, ordered a new control board online, the whole deal. It ended up being the transformer after all that work. He was so mad he just threw the whole thing in the trash and bought a different brand. Sometimes the fix is more trouble than it's worth.
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miller.jason4d ago
Respectfully, I'd just fix the transformer and save fifty bucks.
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