A lot like using a glue stick. Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 23, 2024, at 3:59 PM, Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com> wrote: > > > I bought a laser welder with the hope it would improve my fuel and hydraulic > tank welding. I was very skeptical that such a small bead would be strong > enough. But it is as strong as the base metal and is a perfect weld. Even > over dirty and rusty metal. Super fast. You only need glasses or goggles. > Not even that bright. Brazing is brighter. And with minimal heat to the > workpiece too. > > Today, we were putting a PID temperature controller on an old glass bead > oven/kiln so I can do some temperature research on my diamond cutter bits. > > The guys had mounted the controller in a place where its terminals could come > in contact with some 120 VAC going to the heating elements if the controller > was wiggled a bit. And they didn’t have the bezel hold down on properly so > it was wiggley. I noticed the problems immediately. While they did a good > job centering the controller in the middle of the control panel, it had to be > offset a bit to the right and down to make sure there was no chance of things > ever touching. > > So I cut a rectangular piece of 16 gauge steel with a rectangular offset hole > in it for the temperature controller. Then cut some notches in the panel to > accommodate the offset. Then put some tiny weld beads on the back side so > there are no welds visible from the outside. Super nice repair job. Those > tiny weld beads are if a 6” man with a tiny MIG welder got in there and did > them. > > I welded this in with the temperature controller installed in the patch. It > was a half inch away from the weld. Nothing got hot enough to smoke or melt > or deform. > > So easy to do perfect work on super thin metal. And it will do aluminum too. > It does take nitrogen shielding gas and probably uses more than a mig welder > but that is no big deal. Nitrogen is cheap and you can buy nitrogen filters > to make it yourself. > > If you even need to do some rework or or repair to a metal instrument panel, > this is the tool you want. > From the thinnest sheet metal up to .250” it can make anyone a pro. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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