We got ours from the local Linde welding gas supplier. Not sure the brand
name.
From: Bill Prince
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2024 10:13 AM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Laser Welder
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 mailto: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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From: "Chuck McCown via AF"
Sent: 3/23/2024 6:27:37 PM
To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group"
Cc: "Chuck McCown"
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Laser Welder
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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