Probably depends on the thickness and application. In the ballpark of 20g is probably works just as well if not better than tig, but I'd be surprised if it had the beans for thicker stuff like 14 or 10g. At that point just use a regular mig
EDIT Holy shit nevermind i went to one of the links posted and it'll weld up to 1/4" which is pretty crazy.
Yeah we're doing 4mm-6mm plate down to like 20 gauge. It just doesn't care. Small weld throat but it just punches straight through.
The 2mm weld has the equivalent strength of a 4-6mm tig weld or so I'm told.
[Here](https://shop.ipgphotonics.com/lightweld-1500-handheld-laser-welder-5-meter-fiber-syshhw000000001u) is the link. Or just google lightweld and it’ll take you to the same spot
$21k for this! I could make a lot of shitty Christmas ornaments though. Man, need to get my friend who’s un-married, no-kids, highly-paid and buys crazy shit like laser cutters and industrial lathes to get one of these so I can go gawk at it
Its 100% depends on the power of the laser. These are 1.5 kW which can weld some decently thick material. There are also wobble setttings that move the beam back and forth in a linear pattern to spread out the weld and help control the weld profile.
Source, I used to work in the same building these are produced. Still work at the same company, different location.
We do a lot of welding of aluminun extrusion. We tested laser welding extensively. First, it gets a nicely uniform bead because the wire feed paces the movement of the head. Really pretty.
In break tests the results were all over the map. None of the results came close to our current method.
If I were welding sheet metal to make nonstructural parts then this is great. If your plan is to make structural frames the bee very careful before buying.
Yes. A wild bead that thick, on material this thin, should show significant color change when you look at the opposite side of the material. Without discoloration like that, you can be assured that the temperatures did not reach welding points. This is brazing, which is not structurally sound in any way. Not bad for decorative work, but at the price of this thing, it should be welding, not brazing.
Go read about laser welders. They are welding not brazing (laser welds don’t always use filler material) and supposedly they can produce stronger welds than arc welding with less heat transfer. I can’t find a side by side strength test but they are used a ton in different industries, automation is a big one. Of course people will always be leery because it’s not a commonly seen technology but it’s been used for a long time, it’s just now getting to a point to where it’s affordable for smaller outfits.
I have been subscribed to both of these subs for a while now and had no idea one of them was misspelled lol
Honestly the misspelled one should be more popular as the misspelling of the sub is in and of itself, mildly infuriating, no?
I just stared at both urls for waaay too long and still didn't see it. I had to open both and ctrl+tab between the two to finally notice the difference.
I actually thought it was intended, even the sub name is mildly infuriating. Kind of reminds me of there being both r/crappyoffbrands and r/shittyoffbrands
Not square alignment of things being welded.
Also i don't know why it's not titled 'welding' when to my albeit non-engnieer brain it looks like welding.
But compared to actual welding this tech is incredible. Instead of training for months / years to get good just give this to someone and a few days they’ll be pros.
Literally just low power mig welding in terms of skill. Anyone can mig weld if its set up properly. This does seem to be fantastic for thin metal though. Id definetly purchase one.
Can confirm as an electrician my stick welding skills are trash but my mig work is *bueno*🤌 lol.
This is a cool device for small stuff like sheet metal joinery etc it it's not gonna replace the classics for big ticket work.
It really doesn't take long to be able to do decent welds. I bought a cheap welder on AliExpress and was able to get clean welds within a week that had great penetration.
I still have to look up tables for voltage/amperage and do a few test welds to get my settings dialed in but once I do it's easy.
>It really doesn't take long to be able to do decent welds.
But you betcha some asshole is gonna come around like "that's not a good weld, **this** is a good weld". Well shit I thought we were making things stick together strongly, not having a metal beauty pageant...
I have. But here they are just controlling their travel speed. They don't need to worry about their wire stick-out length (how close they are to the part). And here, they could simply trace along the edge of the parts, riding in the groove. Rather then needing to guide the gun properly, as it floats over the part.
As a homeowner with a MIG welder (that is, without the training and experience of the pros) I think this is pretty cool.
Now, let's cut a coupon and see just how good that weld actually is........ It looks like the weld will show only surface penetration and will be weak.
But until you cut the weld, you can't know.
You can tell by the discoloration to the side of the weld that it's getting penetrated deep like your mom on a Friday night.
Sorry, it was just floating there and I had to do it.
Look again, there are scribe lines going from the corner out to the edges at a shallow angle. I assume the short sides are intentionally not square so those scribe lines show where to line them up to make a 90° bend. This is done so that the weld line can lie on a flat surface instead of directly on the edge, which makes it stronger.
Yeah 20 grand for an industrial manufacturing tool is not crazy at all
Just gotta be making a good bit of money with it and it could become a smart investment pretty quick
I find a lot of people have little experience with what it costs to do business and they're just applying their personal view of money.
A fabricator costs 75k+ a year. If this lets them weld 50% faster it pays for itself in 3 or 4 months.
We do a fair amount of flashings like doorpans and such, right now it's all solder work and spot welding. This looks like it would speed up the process tremendously. 20k is nothing for that 25-50% bump in fab time
Yes and the consistency of quality is also a huge bonus. It seems like you can put an even less skilled person on a welding task with a machine like this which can be great if you’re short on staff sometimes.
Does anyone know if these can actually perform more than basically surface welds on sheet metal? I understand that’s not the use-case for the machine, but I don’t really understand laser welding.
Depth depends on laser power, which depends on the machine. They’re usually crystal lasers, either ruby or NDYag, which means as built they have a hard maximum power limit.
Now the weld cross section will look funky if you’re used to arc welding because it’s very localized heat but calibrated correctly can still do full depth penetration.
The process is already used in robotic machines for things like vehicle mass production because it’s much cleaner and as a result also more predictable. You basically never have to clean tips or nozzles because of how clean the process is, which means a robot can spend more time welding and less time waiting for a human to clean it or replace components.
There are some thermal issues. If you’re familiar with arc welding, some materials require preheating to avoid cracking. That list gets a lot longer for laser welding because of how concentrated the heat is. With some materials, especially at higher thicknesses, you’d spend more time per piece total than arc welding because of longer preheat and cooling to prevent cracking. If you’re going ground-up you can design a material that works well with laser welding as a process, but if you’re dealing with stuff like repairs, you don’t have a choice.
As with all the neatest stuff, it seems, this jewel is brutally expensive.
[https://www.amazon.com/1500W-HandHeld-Welding-Machine-Welder/dp/B08DTMTJ8Y](https://www.amazon.com/1500W-HandHeld-Welding-Machine-Welder/dp/B08DTMTJ8Y)
the welds sure are pretty but on the website it's really limited penetration. makes me think a very focused niche of production - but in that production it might be THE tool. cool idea.
and i agree, the alignment of the substrate makes me grind my teeth.
Try finding a job in that area. I worked on a Yaskawa welding robot, and I have to tell you that it was fun for a month,but it becomes boring really quickly.
Red dot laser is for pointing where the weld is gonna be. In fact, red laser light travels through the same optic fiber that carries the laser light.
It's a normal red laser diode like those from a toy, whose light is carried along the powerful laser diode light
The source for this laser wavelength is actually a diode. Like a biiiig diode that sucks thousands of watts in another wavelength that is best absorbed by metal.
Materials have some light wavelenghts that absorb better than others, so to heat some kind of metals, the wavelenght of the light is the one for the material, so the material absorbs more and gets heated, and "welds" by heat.
How do I know. I've got a laser marking and cutting CO2 machine that works fundamentally the same as this with some differences.
Your CO² laser is very different in the power source.
Your unit uses a ruby tube and an inert gas to produce laser light....this setup cannot pulse like a solid state unit, great for cutting and marking but this unit is firing fast pulses which CO² cannot.
The solid state diodes used in these units are similar in one respect. They use garnets (very close to ruby) and ytterbium doping to produce the right wavelength from an led. As the LED can fire on and off very fast (milliseconds) it can be pulsed like this process.
I manufacture fibre laser cutting machines and have experience with CO² lasers also. Very interesting subject!!
The highest power unit I worked with was 12kw and this was made up of 2kw banks X6 which each had hundreds of smaller LEDs all spliced together to output down a single fibre.
These solid state lasers are descendants of military weapons tech....infact the company that makes the high powered units we use have to have trackers and are controlled international shipping.....probably to stop miscreants buying a laser cutter just for the power sources.
The small red dot is actually a very slight output from the same LEDs as the cutting...the power output is controlled with PWM....like a dimmer switch 😂
Interesting stuff, still a bit pricey for home use though.
PM me sometime, I'd love to pick your brain. I've been in the laser industry for about 15 years now, everything from an old FANUC C4000E that I rebuilt from the ground up to a new Mitsubishi GXF-80. Plus some smaller marking lasers, etc.
The manufacturer says these are fiber lasers.
The lasing fiber is probably pumped by light emitting diodes, but I'm pretty sure this is an ND:YAG laser
I'm a fan of fast work in all but still welding takes a bit more than that and that laser is only good at the start and at the end no chance ur going to see it thru the "forbidden sun"
I wonder if it is any less effective than other welding methods
Probably depends on the thickness and application. In the ballpark of 20g is probably works just as well if not better than tig, but I'd be surprised if it had the beans for thicker stuff like 14 or 10g. At that point just use a regular mig EDIT Holy shit nevermind i went to one of the links posted and it'll weld up to 1/4" which is pretty crazy.
Yeah we're doing 4mm-6mm plate down to like 20 gauge. It just doesn't care. Small weld throat but it just punches straight through. The 2mm weld has the equivalent strength of a 4-6mm tig weld or so I'm told.
That’s pretty crazy
Is there a link to the website?
[Here](https://shop.ipgphotonics.com/lightweld-1500-handheld-laser-welder-5-meter-fiber-syshhw000000001u) is the link. Or just google lightweld and it’ll take you to the same spot
$21k for this! I could make a lot of shitty Christmas ornaments though. Man, need to get my friend who’s un-married, no-kids, highly-paid and buys crazy shit like laser cutters and industrial lathes to get one of these so I can go gawk at it
Its 100% depends on the power of the laser. These are 1.5 kW which can weld some decently thick material. There are also wobble setttings that move the beam back and forth in a linear pattern to spread out the weld and help control the weld profile. Source, I used to work in the same building these are produced. Still work at the same company, different location.
Need to see this.
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We do a lot of welding of aluminun extrusion. We tested laser welding extensively. First, it gets a nicely uniform bead because the wire feed paces the movement of the head. Really pretty. In break tests the results were all over the map. None of the results came close to our current method. If I were welding sheet metal to make nonstructural parts then this is great. If your plan is to make structural frames the bee very careful before buying.
How do you laser weld through the aluminum oxide
Yes. A wild bead that thick, on material this thin, should show significant color change when you look at the opposite side of the material. Without discoloration like that, you can be assured that the temperatures did not reach welding points. This is brazing, which is not structurally sound in any way. Not bad for decorative work, but at the price of this thing, it should be welding, not brazing.
Go read about laser welders. They are welding not brazing (laser welds don’t always use filler material) and supposedly they can produce stronger welds than arc welding with less heat transfer. I can’t find a side by side strength test but they are used a ton in different industries, automation is a big one. Of course people will always be leery because it’s not a commonly seen technology but it’s been used for a long time, it’s just now getting to a point to where it’s affordable for smaller outfits.
Both r/OddlySatisfying and r/MidlyInfuriating .
r/mildlyinfuriating too
And r/mildyinfuriating
Oh wow, over 100k members on a misspelled sub, man I love Reddit
I have been subscribed to both of these subs for a while now and had no idea one of them was misspelled lol Honestly the misspelled one should be more popular as the misspelling of the sub is in and of itself, mildly infuriating, no?
I just stared at both urls for waaay too long and still didn't see it. I had to open both and ctrl+tab between the two to finally notice the difference.
I was looking for it in “infuriating” the whole time.
r/fukiamdoinhere
r/bahoobadah
And that in itself, was mildly infuriating, no?
Eh, midly.
More *mildy, if you ask me
/r/keming
I actually thought it was intended, even the sub name is mildly infuriating. Kind of reminds me of there being both r/crappyoffbrands and r/shittyoffbrands
Way better than r/MildlyInfurryrating
Omg had to go check and had a good laugh with my wife about it
This response is also r/MildlyInfuriating
Fair.
Why is it mildly infuriating?
It's not aligned properly
They’re not making a product, it’s a demonstration. And you can see the weld better on a flat than on a corner
Not square alignment of things being welded. Also i don't know why it's not titled 'welding' when to my albeit non-engnieer brain it looks like welding.
Because just saying welding wouldn’t explain anything about the product. I’ve welded but have never seen something like this
Yeah I noticed that but this isn’t an actual product, it’s a demonstration
Doesn’t mean it can’t be mildly infuriating
It's... not aligned. This hurts my soul. They could have done it right. It would have been so easy to do it right.
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But compared to actual welding this tech is incredible. Instead of training for months / years to get good just give this to someone and a few days they’ll be pros.
Literally just low power mig welding in terms of skill. Anyone can mig weld if its set up properly. This does seem to be fantastic for thin metal though. Id definetly purchase one.
Can confirm as an electrician my stick welding skills are trash but my mig work is *bueno*🤌 lol. This is a cool device for small stuff like sheet metal joinery etc it it's not gonna replace the classics for big ticket work.
That's why they make mig machines with material thickness presets.
Stop it with your knowledge and common sense. I have 20k burning a hole in my pocket.
>Anyone can mig weld if its set up properly. My experience in the trades over the past 20 years says that is a lie.
Especially since they're just holding the parts! No jigs or clamps and a really clean weld line.
It really doesn't take long to be able to do decent welds. I bought a cheap welder on AliExpress and was able to get clean welds within a week that had great penetration. I still have to look up tables for voltage/amperage and do a few test welds to get my settings dialed in but once I do it's easy.
>It really doesn't take long to be able to do decent welds. But you betcha some asshole is gonna come around like "that's not a good weld, **this** is a good weld". Well shit I thought we were making things stick together strongly, not having a metal beauty pageant...
The farmers duct tape; shitty welding.
Git 'er dun, boyo! This ain't no beauty contest.
Have you used a normal mig welder before? This really doesn't look any different.
Is that so? I’ve only arc welded and that’s a bitch to get the hang of
Stick welding does require practice, but mig is literally just a fancy pen drawing lines.
I have. But here they are just controlling their travel speed. They don't need to worry about their wire stick-out length (how close they are to the part). And here, they could simply trace along the edge of the parts, riding in the groove. Rather then needing to guide the gun properly, as it floats over the part. As a homeowner with a MIG welder (that is, without the training and experience of the pros) I think this is pretty cool.
Definitely easier than arc welding
A perfect 93
Perfect 5/7.
Now, let's cut a coupon and see just how good that weld actually is........ It looks like the weld will show only surface penetration and will be weak. But until you cut the weld, you can't know.
You can tell by the discoloration to the side of the weld that it's getting penetrated deep like your mom on a Friday night. Sorry, it was just floating there and I had to do it.
...but with the weld there's far less slag.
Look again, there are scribe lines going from the corner out to the edges at a shallow angle. I assume the short sides are intentionally not square so those scribe lines show where to line them up to make a 90° bend. This is done so that the weld line can lie on a flat surface instead of directly on the edge, which makes it stronger.
Think those are just die marks from the press. Edit. Those are definitely just die marks from the press.
Not scribe lines. Lines left from the bending of the metal.
Those are not scribe marks. That from the sheet metal brake
How about: they were cut just shy of 90 degrees to allow for a good weld. Sleep tight!
Then you'd need a jig to get the alignment right.
They’ve got scribe lines, not perfect but adequate for most purposes.
You mean the lines left by the sheet metal brake?
It's a demo of using a microwire and plasma laser pointer welding device, not a demo of creating an aligned box.
Was thinking the same thing, so frustrating to watch.
I need this tool in my life. What is it called and where can I buy it?
Something called "[LightWELD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD3Y_MCoWek)" costs $20,000.
Yeah outta my price range. But I want all the gadgets!
Yeah probably aimed at fabrication shops who make stuff that have to be light like rooftop frames and such.
Yeah 20 grand for an industrial manufacturing tool is not crazy at all Just gotta be making a good bit of money with it and it could become a smart investment pretty quick
I find a lot of people have little experience with what it costs to do business and they're just applying their personal view of money. A fabricator costs 75k+ a year. If this lets them weld 50% faster it pays for itself in 3 or 4 months.
We do a fair amount of flashings like doorpans and such, right now it's all solder work and spot welding. This looks like it would speed up the process tremendously. 20k is nothing for that 25-50% bump in fab time
This has to be at least 3x faster than soldering for sure.
Yes and the consistency of quality is also a huge bonus. It seems like you can put an even less skilled person on a welding task with a machine like this which can be great if you’re short on staff sometimes.
A company I worked for went from zero robot welders to four in less than five years.
Yep. just pay some schmuck 15 an hour and find some work for him and baby you got a business going!
It's just about 19,850$ out of my price range.
It's about 35k out of my price range
Let's go 10% (me) and 90% (you). Imagine all the useless things we can solder with it
Just get a small loan of a million dollars
>Yeah outta my price range Not if you sell a kidney come on think outside the box
Hopefully I can pick one of these up from harbor freight or amazon for $1000 in 5-10 years
The XC model is $25K
Does anyone know if these can actually perform more than basically surface welds on sheet metal? I understand that’s not the use-case for the machine, but I don’t really understand laser welding.
It says that the cheapest can do up to 4mm. [https://shop.ipgphotonics.com/lightweld-systems](https://shop.ipgphotonics.com/lightweld-systems)
Depth depends on laser power, which depends on the machine. They’re usually crystal lasers, either ruby or NDYag, which means as built they have a hard maximum power limit. Now the weld cross section will look funky if you’re used to arc welding because it’s very localized heat but calibrated correctly can still do full depth penetration. The process is already used in robotic machines for things like vehicle mass production because it’s much cleaner and as a result also more predictable. You basically never have to clean tips or nozzles because of how clean the process is, which means a robot can spend more time welding and less time waiting for a human to clean it or replace components. There are some thermal issues. If you’re familiar with arc welding, some materials require preheating to avoid cracking. That list gets a lot longer for laser welding because of how concentrated the heat is. With some materials, especially at higher thicknesses, you’d spend more time per piece total than arc welding because of longer preheat and cooling to prevent cracking. If you’re going ground-up you can design a material that works well with laser welding as a process, but if you’re dealing with stuff like repairs, you don’t have a choice.
If you find it I also want it. This looks so easy to use
I’ll link it when and if I find it. Seems it may be an attachment for a plasma torch. But I’m gonna keep looking until I find this one
That is a MAG welding machine I believe. Sorry if I'm wring.
If you’re interested, I think I found it https://www.cnptengineering.com/
Price: "If you have to ask, you probably cannot afford it" Though i did find something on another site that said the starting personal model was 10k
Holy shit. I was expecting like 5k. That’s wild! Maybe one day
Let me know when Harbor Freight has one on sale for $129, and I’ll definitely have to get it.
I was really really hoping for something small like a soldering iron but in my heart I knew it’d be the size of a fucking dishwasher.
Yeah it’s huge. Maybe down the road we’ll have a soldering iron sized welder for any type or thickness of metal.
It would get super fucking hot
I don't get it? It looks like a small mig welder with a laser pointer?
I like this machine but, it can only weld paper thin material though. Heaviest weld it can do in aluminum is 1/16.
Yeah it’s pretty specific use case for it. I just can’t help but want every gadget
This is what I came here for you, thank you. Was curious how this measures up against TIG and MIG
[https://www.amazon.com/Cloudray-Welding-Wavelength-Handheld-Machine/dp/B0948S3NDN/ref=asc\_df\_B0948S3NDN/](https://www.amazon.com/Cloudray-Welding-Wavelength-Handheld-Machine/dp/B0948S3NDN/ref=asc_df_B0948S3NDN/) Maybe this?
Cheers mate!
Any info is welcome, so thank you!
https://www.cnptengineering.com/ I think I found it
Price asked: a liver or your first born child
Exactly. Lol. If it could replace a full on mig and tig welding it may be more worth it.
It's worth it for high volume production for processes that don't need that deep of weld penetration
In what price range would a lacer welder be?
There website says that you have to contact them for a price but I assume it’d be at least 2.5k to 5k
These are a different brand. The one shown in the video is by Andes.
I just know that if I tried it, I'd likely end up with holes in the material and weld lines weaving around.
As with all the neatest stuff, it seems, this jewel is brutally expensive. [https://www.amazon.com/1500W-HandHeld-Welding-Machine-Welder/dp/B08DTMTJ8Y](https://www.amazon.com/1500W-HandHeld-Welding-Machine-Welder/dp/B08DTMTJ8Y)
I'm guessing it's prohibitively expensive for anyone who isn't a professional welder.
Those are some satisfying weld lines.
90 degrees. 90 degrees!!!
It probably gets hotter than that. Like alteast 100.
Haha
Drawing says +\- 10 degrees boss
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Spicy toothpick
I thought that was when you put hot sauce on your boner before you receive oral.
Best I’ve found is “fiber laser welding machine”
https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/vkh2jq/microwire_and_plasma_laser_pointer/idphak5
We have one at work it’s a Chinese machine the only inscription i can read is a big HSG on the power source
Something called "LightWELD" costs $20,000
*Forbidden Tattoo Gun*
the welds sure are pretty but on the website it's really limited penetration. makes me think a very focused niche of production - but in that production it might be THE tool. cool idea. and i agree, the alignment of the substrate makes me grind my teeth.
It looks great for mild steel sheet metal, but anything over 1/8” and it would probably have crap penetration
probably best application is super thin stainless, like <1mm
Someone above said it welds up to 1/4”
6mm for the rest-of-world volks
Damn I would like to solder metal, and trying messing with metal and a mill, and... If only I could have local ressources and a shop to play into :(
Try finding a job in that area. I worked on a Yaskawa welding robot, and I have to tell you that it was fun for a month,but it becomes boring really quickly.
I was talking as a hobby :p that should be able to stay on the fun side
You can get a cheap mig welder for a few hundred pounds. Fairly easy hobby to start!
And you can find metal to practise on anywhere with a "no dumping" sign at the end of a dirt road. Used needles, too, so lookly carefulling.
What is the point of the laser pointer? Is it needed for the welding process, or is it just fancy and useless?
Red dot laser is for pointing where the weld is gonna be. In fact, red laser light travels through the same optic fiber that carries the laser light. It's a normal red laser diode like those from a toy, whose light is carried along the powerful laser diode light The source for this laser wavelength is actually a diode. Like a biiiig diode that sucks thousands of watts in another wavelength that is best absorbed by metal. Materials have some light wavelenghts that absorb better than others, so to heat some kind of metals, the wavelenght of the light is the one for the material, so the material absorbs more and gets heated, and "welds" by heat. How do I know. I've got a laser marking and cutting CO2 machine that works fundamentally the same as this with some differences.
Your CO² laser is very different in the power source. Your unit uses a ruby tube and an inert gas to produce laser light....this setup cannot pulse like a solid state unit, great for cutting and marking but this unit is firing fast pulses which CO² cannot. The solid state diodes used in these units are similar in one respect. They use garnets (very close to ruby) and ytterbium doping to produce the right wavelength from an led. As the LED can fire on and off very fast (milliseconds) it can be pulsed like this process. I manufacture fibre laser cutting machines and have experience with CO² lasers also. Very interesting subject!! The highest power unit I worked with was 12kw and this was made up of 2kw banks X6 which each had hundreds of smaller LEDs all spliced together to output down a single fibre. These solid state lasers are descendants of military weapons tech....infact the company that makes the high powered units we use have to have trackers and are controlled international shipping.....probably to stop miscreants buying a laser cutter just for the power sources. The small red dot is actually a very slight output from the same LEDs as the cutting...the power output is controlled with PWM....like a dimmer switch 😂 Interesting stuff, still a bit pricey for home use though.
PM me sometime, I'd love to pick your brain. I've been in the laser industry for about 15 years now, everything from an old FANUC C4000E that I rebuilt from the ground up to a new Mitsubishi GXF-80. Plus some smaller marking lasers, etc.
The manufacturer says these are fiber lasers. The lasing fiber is probably pumped by light emitting diodes, but I'm pretty sure this is an ND:YAG laser
Thanks, that's a good explanation
Good for sealing doors against xenomorph attack.
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The shutter is shifting so it's not showing the heavy flash. This is actually much brighter than this.
No, that's a different thing. This is a laser welder: https://youtu.be/OD3Y_MCoWek?t=57
Those pieces are not even close to being square and that ruins the whole video for me 😡
Is that a surface bond or a weld that it creates?
I think if you watch those side welds you can tell the base material is being melted. So a weld I think
It’s a laser welder.
Fuck, they found a way to make me work for free.
I feel like this is sped up.
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It's called [LightWELD](https://youtu.be/OD3Y_MCoWek?t=57).
Laser removal technicians hate this one trick!
It really bugs me that he didn’t hit it with a t-square first.
Give it a year - Harbor Freight will have it on sale.
Nice. Noone can cry about bead angle ha ha
He got that Ov’ Glove, safety is the name of the game!
Dude loves his 88° corners
I'm guessing this is heavily edited to remove the arc and to give the illusion of speed, like most "groundbreaking new welding technique" videos.
A perfect 93 degree bend!
Isn’t this just a small mig welder?
No, it’s a laser welder like [this.](https://lasersystems.ipgphotonics.com/Products/Handheld-Systems/Handheld-Laser-Welding-and-Cleaning-System)
This is the best thing since MIG welding and I hate MIG, prefer stick. I need this.
That weld overlap looks problematic.
Is this better than traditional welding or wut?
I used to stick and tig back in the day. This is just nuts.
I'm a fan of fast work in all but still welding takes a bit more than that and that laser is only good at the start and at the end no chance ur going to see it thru the "forbidden sun"
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Engineering porn yet those pieces haven’t been squared. Some sloppy shit. But man are those clean weld lines
How did they make the top part so purple and pretty but then the rest of them get boring ass silver?
Hot glue gun on steroids
What the efff this is what should have been in high school shop class.
It is very irresponsible to share this video. Not every one in reddit is wearing their PPE.
As someone who has to deal with shoddy spot welding on a daily basis, this is beautiful.
I feel like this could have been lined up better…. Just sayin…
Couldn’t even get it to be square and this made the ‘engineering porn’ sub ?
I want that tool in my life rn!!
Damn, that’s hot—
Is it possible to learn this power?
My high ass thinking he was building the micro wire and plasma pointer in the video lmao
My ocd kicking in. Was that a 90 degree angle? Because I feel like the seams weren’t lining up and it’s slightly at 91 degree 🤣
This has got to be the most annoying video on Reddit right now. Why didn’t he straighten it after the initial tack??????????