Abstract: A pickup mechanism for feeding of weld pins from a magazine to a welding electrode of a welding gun, where the pickup mechanism is attachable to the welding gun in connection to the welding electrode, and where the magazine is attachable to the pickup mechanism, the pickup mechanism comprises a movable pickup lever arm displaceable between a pickup position and a delivery position, where the pickup lever arm is adapted for displacing the weld pin from a pickup position in the magazine to a welding position at the welding electrode; wherein the pickup lever arm has a pickup part comprising a feeding portion for feeding the weld pins from the pickup position to the welding position, where the pickup part comprises a retrieving portion arranged with a sliding surface for displacing the pickup lever arm in a direction essentially perpendicular to the direction of the movement between the delivery position and the pickup position when the sliding surface is in contact with a first weld pin in the magazine, and whe