fish, thanks for your response. I'm using a wire feed welder (grounded to the welding table). My welding table is actually an 18 gage steel door. So the working distance between the proposed electromagnets and the stock that I am welding would be approx 1/16" (18 gage) sheet metal. On a similar...
Is it possible to turn my 20 square foot welding table into an elctromagnet? I weld steel cut nails into artwork. The nails lay flat on the steel table, but the welding process sometimes "shifts" the nail out of position during the spot weld. This error causes the process to be shut down, and...