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by hwillis 2539 days ago
That's likely a myth. Even in space, cold welding doesn't happen under static loading: http://esmat.esa.int/Publications/Published_papers/STM-279.p...

It requires impact of fretting, and even then there's a lot of debate over whether it's really cold welding or just more normal galling etc.