most battery packs from the Li-Ion 18650 are made with a kind of spot welder to weld the nickel strip and the 18650 battery terminals. Spot welder used are generally of homemade varieties: either from microwave transformers, or simple assemblies with supercapacitors (lead-acid batteries and high current relay). battery formations assembled in this way are generally battery packs with a high enough current output or high power density.
in this discussion what I mean is for a battery pack that only holds a few Lithium Ion 18650 batteries. This configuration is suitable for low current applications, no more than a few Amp. that's what I recommend using it. Does not require spot welder in any form, you only need an ordinary soldering tool.