OK, you made me look.
Googling "laser welder" I get over 9 million hits. Narrowing it to just
"shopping", I get prices ranging from $500 to over $50K.
I presume the issues are power, size, and what else?
We have a friend who welds for his business and has quite an assortment
of welding equipment. Where would I send him if he's interested?
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 3/25/2024 8:15 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
Way more. Like $30k
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On Mar 25, 2024, at 7:36 AM, Cameron Crum <cc...@murcevilo.com> wrote:
Cost vs a mig welder?
On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 9:35 PM Chuck McCown via AF <af@af.afmug.com>
wrote:
Hand held.
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On Mar 23, 2024, at 6:16 PM, Ken Hohhof <khoh...@kwom.com> wrote:
Hand held? Or like a CNC machine?
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A lot like using a glue gun.
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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.
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