@@alexduke5402 I will be honest, I secretly delight in comments about weird background music... but in this case it's the almost subliminal "did I leave the oven on" anxiety-inducing beeping that I object to. Like the "Mosquito" noise generator that keeps teenagers from hanging around storefronts.
Metallurgically speaking, when welding Aluminum: You should always use a filler wire that's compatible with the base metal's properties. Aluminum is very seldom if ever fusion welded, as it will chill crack on a microscopic level, and leave a very brittle weld bead. Also welding extrusions is not ideal if they have a grey anodized coating on them. That will contaminate your weld bead and is most likely the reason for the nasty black soot around the joint.
@@hematose What exactly is "lower series aluminum"?? There are many grades of aluminum, none are necessarily higher or lower than another, just different properties.
@@life_of_riley88 "Lower" means a lower series number. 1000-series is a lower series than 6000-series. 7000-series is really difficult to weld autogenously without cracking (some would say impossible maybe), 6000-series is easier, but still really hard. As you go down the series (to lower numbers) it typically gets easier.
@@hematose Yeah. . . That's not really the case. It's not a scale, and it has everything to do with chemical composition and heat treatment, not weldability. 7000 series aluminum is nearly as difficult to weld as say 2024 aluminum which is nearly impossible to weld without special equipment and conditions. Even then 2024 is NOT recommended to be welded in any industry.
Being a user of one of the lightweld models, to prove a point about the neccesity of some penetration to a co-welder and turning the settings up, I took an 8 pound hamer to a 4 panel 10x30 inch stainless box I welded and the metal near the weld was ripping before the weld was doing anything. Also, you should be wearing the helmet it comes with, sleeves, and gloves when welding with it and not put the safety clamp on the gun itself... I've felt the beam bouncing back at me (you'll feel a warm vibration) and I've put surface level cuts with flashes of fire on my leather gloves when tacking pieces and had scorch marks from where my hand was while welding. I even intentionally burned a hole in a pair of gloves I laid infront of the beam path with a very short trigger pull. And to not damage the $3000 gun, aim it at an angle, the beam will deflect back up the tube and can mess things up if you go straight up and down.
Laser welders can be much stronger and faster than MIG. Now the problem is if your not setup correctly or using lower power systems, it’s easy to make good looking welds that have crap for penetration. Especially as there is no “feel” for if stuff set wrong.
Strange way to test the strength of a weld with downward pressure. The weld on the angle broke fairly easily which you'd expect but putting downward pressure on a joint that's touching the base isn't really stressing the weld to breaking point. Nest time Try clamping either end and pull the metal apart to test the shearing strength equally. I'd be interested to know how bigger gap you can fill across with a laser welder. I've had to regularly bridge 1/2" gaps with Ali mig which it does reasonably easily
Carbon to stainless is a breeze. We do a 16 ga galv to 7 ga hot roll that is near impossible with mig and is easy with this machine check out Serra Laser... They've put one on a Fanuc collaborative robot.
@@douglasbiesecker It also welds with 30 amps what takes a TIG machine 200 amps. So my question is. If one owns a fabrication shop how much money is saved on electricity and does it make up for the difference in machine cost in time before the machine fails fully?
In order to pass a bend test you have to have penetration out the back of the part. Both of the triangles failed the bend test. On a Good weld the area with the weld will stay flat and the parent material will bend left and right of the weld. Same with the extruded aluminum part. The welded area should have stayed put and the 2 straight parts leading down to the table should have bent first.
Cool tool, but please clean up those aluminum filings, that’s an incredible fire hazard, and if it comes in contact with rust and heat, you’ve got a thermite reaction on your hands.
can you do a comparison video on steel with different thicknesses with all four welding tech. 1. laser, VS . TIG VS. MIG VS stick. which one is stronger faster cheaper and OVERALL
With the new 5000w laser welder, my money is on the laser in any area you can think of on any material up to .25. Except for 1 thing, the machine costs $32k USD.
After using a laser welder I struggle to pick up other torches. All other options are by far cheaper if price is your priority. Speed and thorough penetration for daily productivity, laser wins by leagues. Other methods could not keep the quality at the speed.
I've seen a review that laser welding seam is bubbly and it cannot be prevented by settings therefore laser welding strength is far worse than other professional welding. But of course there are applications where laser welding is great. When you need to weld fast, clean but the strength and longevity isn't very important.
If that beam hits you skin you are fucked...I burned my finger with one a few days ago the fucking pain of it I never felt anything burn me as quick before and I was wearing gloves
so how much money did this guy get because if you put pressure against a table trying to break a weld I don't really know how far you are really going to get
Love the video, but if you're going to be welding a reflective material like aluminium with a laser, make sure to wear all the PPE including the helmet if you like your skin.
Hey bud I was looking forward to watching this but I can't handle the high pitch sound sorry for this comment please don't take it as me being rude or anything OK
Looks like a lot of undercut and lack of penetration. Also, burn through at the termination point.I guess you have to figure it out as far as usability. Speed is nice, but these aren't usable welds. None of these welds would pass any sort of inspection.
You can use a laser welder professionally. There are different companies that make these portable or stationary. The cost of them differ between the two.
He's supposed to be wearing a special helmet with an aluminum plate they provide with the machine that has a special glass lense in it along with the laser safety glasses underneath the hood. I have scorched gloves that can tell you the beam will reflect back
They do provide a regular helmet with an aluminum heat shield on it. I would use it for long runs of stainless steel as it would reflect the heat back. For short runs of aluminum the UV glasses work fine. I also use green welding glasses to reduce the glare a little more. Other than that, you can pick up most pieces of metal seconds after welding it.
@@pieshka4509 Laser safety glasses. I read somewhere that the glasses you get for lasers are not to block the light but to make the laser more visible. Any thoughts on that? I'm talking about the glasses you might get w/ laser levels, for example.
He bent everything BUT that weld lmao. My weld instructor made me redo my test because he bent it like that, not directly bending the weld itself. Cool machine though.
Yeah, I get that. Imagine those budgie smugglers, thick, shiny black pubes and a luxuriant black moustache.... Pubes getting velcro'd together etc? Alright I'll stop...
I wish the price of these was less. Perhaps as they "catch on" more in the future the price will come down, much like the microwave back in the day. Right now the cost is very restrictive for the person that doesn't do a lot of welding day in and day out.
You would be correct. The technique is used on items that typically don't need the reinforcement of filler material. Only possible if the fit up is exceptionally tight.
It's not TIG or MIG or Stick. You can literally pick up most pieces quickly after welding them. The heat stays very concentrated in the beam. It would take feet of welding a single bead before deformation begins. Stainless steel I do wear gloves. Aluminum is no problem.
@@itsapleasantlifewe wear gloves and proper helmets not just because of heat, but because of the intense IR. That causes cancer. I don’t know how much IR is emitted from this process. I’ve seen others, including the company;s rep, welding with just a lair of gas welding goggles. But that doesn’t make it right. For examp,e, mist oriole call the welding work lead the ground lead, even though it’s not a ground.
Hope you dont have anyone else in your shop. The beam can bounce, especially off non-ferrous. Single bounce is just as hazardous as a direct shot. In the eye= permanent blindness
That depends on the optics. If it is a collimated beam you are correct . If it is a convergent beam focused on the weld zone/filler wire the risk is greatly reduced. Surgical laser cautery machines are focused - one meter from the normal cutting zone the energy is spread too wide to do any damage. The welder's optics are probably similar , otherwise the device would be unnecessarily dangerous. From what I have read, all laser welders use convergent beams. Focusing the beam also makes the welder more efficient.
That “beeping” in the background music is driving me insane!
I like the subject matter of the video, but the background music is grating.
What's wrong, you don't like the original sound track to Chips? Lol
its just too loud vs vis voice
Starting around 4:45 is a really grating high-pitch sound that stays thru the rest of the video too. It sounds like a timer going off in another room.
Not sure why people think they need background music. Especially a crappy track
@@alexduke5402 I will be honest, I secretly delight in comments about weird background music... but in this case it's the almost subliminal "did I leave the oven on" anxiety-inducing beeping that I object to. Like the "Mosquito" noise generator that keeps teenagers from hanging around storefronts.
Bro this video sound more like a music concert than a actual test.
Metallurgically speaking, when welding Aluminum: You should always use a filler wire that's compatible with the base metal's properties. Aluminum is very seldom if ever fusion welded, as it will chill crack on a microscopic level, and leave a very brittle weld bead. Also welding extrusions is not ideal if they have a grey anodized coating on them. That will contaminate your weld bead and is most likely the reason for the nasty black soot around the joint.
Some lessons were needed to get extrusions to stick together. The XR model cleans off the anodized and then welding continues as normal aluminum.
It is possible to weld lower series aluminium autogenously with lasers with very little cracking.
@@hematose What exactly is "lower series aluminum"?? There are many grades of aluminum, none are necessarily higher or lower than another, just different properties.
@@life_of_riley88 "Lower" means a lower series number. 1000-series is a lower series than 6000-series. 7000-series is really difficult to weld autogenously without cracking (some would say impossible maybe), 6000-series is easier, but still really hard. As you go down the series (to lower numbers) it typically gets easier.
@@hematose Yeah. . . That's not really the case. It's not a scale, and it has everything to do with chemical composition and heat treatment, not weldability. 7000 series aluminum is nearly as difficult to weld as say 2024 aluminum which is nearly impossible to weld without special equipment and conditions. Even then 2024 is NOT recommended to be welded in any industry.
Thank you for the background music! Really miss those 70's tv cop series.
Or porn movies
Thanks for sharing your works my friend! 😊🌎✨
What model lazer welder is that and where did you purchase it?
Being a user of one of the lightweld models, to prove a point about the neccesity of some penetration to a co-welder and turning the settings up, I took an 8 pound hamer to a 4 panel 10x30 inch stainless box I welded and the metal near the weld was ripping before the weld was doing anything.
Also, you should be wearing the helmet it comes with, sleeves, and gloves when welding with it and not put the safety clamp on the gun itself... I've felt the beam bouncing back at me (you'll feel a warm vibration) and I've put surface level cuts with flashes of fire on my leather gloves when tacking pieces and had scorch marks from where my hand was while welding. I even intentionally burned a hole in a pair of gloves I laid infront of the beam path with a very short trigger pull.
And to not damage the $3000 gun, aim it at an angle, the beam will deflect back up the tube and can mess things up if you go straight up and down.
Do you have any information if it will weld brass?
@@danl.4743 I've seen it weld copper together and copper to stainless steel so it might
T machine were you using
@@pieshka4509 Copper to stainless? I want to see that.
Always read the manual!
great video but the music is terrible
Right it's like corno music 😂
Laser welders can be much stronger and faster than MIG. Now the problem is if your not setup correctly or using lower power systems, it’s easy to make good looking welds that have crap for penetration. Especially as there is no “feel” for if stuff set wrong.
This mans hands are gloves!! Damn near welding his hands and not even flinching!!
Strange way to test the strength of a weld with downward pressure.
The weld on the angle broke fairly easily which you'd expect but putting downward pressure on a joint that's touching the base isn't really stressing the weld to breaking point.
Nest time Try clamping either end and pull the metal apart to test the shearing strength equally.
I'd be interested to know how bigger gap you can fill across with a laser welder.
I've had to regularly bridge 1/2" gaps with Ali mig which it does reasonably easily
Please make a video on laser welding pieces undergoing NDT inspections and the results.
Nice video almost no heat when you weld? Was the last wolf you made with no wire?
At what pressure was the failure point at 5:20?
I bought the xr in the company, but I weld aluminum and the weld does not penetrate, it breaks when I put pressure on it... in what mode can I put it
what kind if wire the machine use is it the same as MiG welder
Thought you were pretty legit until you tried breaking the weld with your clamping technique - dude!!
Very nice top quality so quick beautiful welding
The beeping remind me of my first digital Timex watch alarm
Can you make a video on laser welding on mild steel thin sheets around 1 mm without wire and what will be it’s strength?
If that riht angled weld was moulded solid it could not resist ythat hydraulic press any better ?
What’s the best brand of fiber laser welding ?
Hello ...How many is the price from the laser machine ? this machine used gas and what wire used ? Thank
Very clean
Hey, mine didn’t come with a power cable did you have to buy your own to and if so where did you get it and can you give me any info?
Yes we did have to make it. It is 3 strand 8 guage and a 15 Amp 220 male receptacle. Hope that helps!
@@itsapleasantlife oh my god thank you bro for replying your a life saver 🙏🏼 yes that helps
Please remove the background music it's quite annoying plus it's hard to understand what you're saying!!!!!!!.
What brand laser welder
I see others have also mentioned it to you need to stop it or people will not watch gutted love this kind of video.
awesome!
Music from hell.
Can you weld disimilar metals together like aluminum and steel or copper to steel, etc?
Yes. We have played with some dissimilar metals. We have done Stainless to Aluminum. We'll play with others and make another video of it.
There is a alarm going off the whole vid that makes it so hard to watch
What is the brand and series of welder and where do you purchase it from? Have you tried joining 304 Stainless and different grades of carbon steels?
The brand is IPG lightweld. We have done both but not together. We'll try it out and post a video soon!
@@itsapleasantlife hey man that’s great, would love to see the carbon to stainless video. I have a request, could you email me personally?
Carbon to stainless is a breeze. We do a 16 ga galv to 7 ga hot roll that is near impossible with mig and is easy with this machine check out Serra Laser... They've put one on a Fanuc collaborative robot.
Ouch $32k price tag....
@@douglasbiesecker It also welds with 30 amps what takes a TIG machine 200 amps. So my question is. If one owns a fabrication shop how much money is saved on electricity and does it make up for the difference in machine cost in time before the machine fails fully?
Hello, can you please tell me what goggles those are that you are wearing.
How much for one of these laser welder
Good day.im interested with your welding machine in your video.can we buy online? Please give me the details.thank you
How much that machine go for
What welder is this?
What welder are we testing?
IPG laser welder
Music sounds like an alarm going off the high pitch made my animals go nuts, but cool welder.
Great taste in toys. Shit taste in music lol 😂
Bonjour est-ce possible de savoir ou peut on se procurer un appareil semblable pour souder
Merci et bonne journée à vous 😉
It is sold by IPG Photonics.
In order to pass a bend test you have to have penetration out the back of the part. Both of the triangles failed the bend test. On a Good weld the area with the weld will stay flat and the parent material will bend left and right of the weld. Same with the extruded aluminum part. The welded area should have stayed put and the 2 straight parts leading down to the table should have bent first.
Weird ppe for welding. Badass though! Laser welding thats some star wars stuff right there.
I kept expecting Ron O'Neal to come strutting in wearing his paisley bell bottoms and slinging a 9
Is laser welding only for aluminum or can it do steel as well?
Steel, stainless, titanium, copper and nickel superalloys are all weldable with lasers like this.
0:16
Would you have the make model of your laser welder ?
it says at the top of the cheat sheat, he's got the XR model of the lightweld from IGP, thing is like $20+k
We have the XR as well as the 1500. The XR will also clean where as the 1500 only welds.
Cool tool, but please clean up those aluminum filings, that’s an incredible fire hazard, and if it comes in contact with rust and heat, you’ve got a thermite reaction on your hands.
Great Video, but sorry I thought an alarm was going off in my house while I was watching.
I killed my hamster listening to this constant iron gling gling sound
My girlfriend heard that music and thought I was watching retro Bow chika Wow wow.
Dose it work well with heavy metal ?
Yes. In the very beginning he says and shows the metals listed on the pamphlet for the welder.
Video was good but I kept wanting to check my smoke detector.
If Jim Carrey being sly in a movie scene was a sound. This videos background would be it
have you weld 1mm aluminium with 1mm aluminium?
For what i use my welder for, when these come down to Harbor Freight flux core welder prices, im all over it. Until then, we call can dream
Wait two years as more companies produce them then we can buy it.
can you do a comparison video on steel with different thicknesses with all four welding tech. 1. laser, VS . TIG VS. MIG VS stick. which one is stronger faster cheaper and OVERALL
With the new 5000w laser welder, my money is on the laser in any area you can think of on any material up to .25. Except for 1 thing, the machine costs $32k USD.
After using a laser welder I struggle to pick up other torches. All other options are by far cheaper if price is your priority. Speed and thorough penetration for daily productivity, laser wins by leagues. Other methods could not keep the quality at the speed.
@@michaelmaroney1660 with the time you safe, the laser pays itself in no time!
I've seen a review that laser welding seam is bubbly and it cannot be prevented by settings therefore laser welding strength is far worse than other professional welding.
But of course there are applications where laser welding is great. When you need to weld fast, clean but the strength and longevity isn't very important.
I came for the welding, and got a hearing test! A bunch of viewers confused the low volume sound of a triangle with the chime of a Casio watch!
in a parallel universe ; youtube channels don't having people mugging and showing off their 3rd grade show and tell adlib skills
Can you weld two different metals together?
One of the comments from a welder said he'd seen one weld copper to stainless steel
But, what about the holy grail? Aluminum to steel.
What brand of Laser welder is this
Upman
If that beam hits you skin you are fucked...I burned my finger with one a few days ago the fucking pain of it I never felt anything burn me as quick before and I was wearing gloves
Am i the only one still hearing that anoying bell/beep sound from the background music?.... the video stopped 5 min ago
so how much money did this guy get because if you put pressure against a table trying to break a weld I don't really know how far you are really going to get
Why are you bending it with a 3/8 bar under the welded material? Put it in a vise and bend it
Love the video, but if you're going to be welding a reflective material like aluminium with a laser, make sure to wear all the PPE including the helmet if you like your skin.
Laser welder ... its pretty good
Up to 1600 watts. Just cost too much. Starting 10k
how much is it and where can I buy it ?????????????? for home use etc...
Bro they cost between 6000-10.000 dollars
@@nickthedane1 wow that's really too much $$$ yeah !!!
They cost closer to 30k from IPG
@@itsapleasantlife yeah, ipg aint right in the head
Hey bud I was looking forward to watching this but I can't handle the high pitch sound sorry for this comment please don't take it as me being rude or anything OK
Bro the music made it unwatchable. I had to turn it up just to hear your voice but that made the annoying high pitch music unbearable
yup crap music ruined it pal
Looks like a lot of undercut and lack of penetration. Also, burn through at the termination point.I guess you have to figure it out as far as usability. Speed is nice, but these aren't usable welds. None of these welds would pass any sort of inspection.
By what im watching, its more of a craft welder for projects or artistic figures that professionals jobs
You can use a laser welder professionally. There are different companies that make these portable or stationary. The cost of them differ between the two.
What kind of eye protection is necessary?
The best kind. This thing will cut you easier than metal
He's supposed to be wearing a special helmet with an aluminum plate they provide with the machine that has a special glass lense in it along with the laser safety glasses underneath the hood. I have scorched gloves that can tell you the beam will reflect back
@@pieshka4509 In a word, "holy shit". Thank you for that information.
They do provide a regular helmet with an aluminum heat shield on it. I would use it for long runs of stainless steel as it would reflect the heat back. For short runs of aluminum the UV glasses work fine. I also use green welding glasses to reduce the glare a little more. Other than that, you can pick up most pieces of metal seconds after welding it.
@@pieshka4509 Laser safety glasses. I read somewhere that the glasses you get for lasers are not to block the light but to make the laser more visible. Any thoughts on that? I'm talking about the glasses you might get w/ laser levels, for example.
He bent everything BUT that weld lmao. My weld instructor made me redo my test because he bent it like that, not directly bending the weld itself. Cool machine though.
What sis the fckn noise like an alarm that doesn’t let hear anything that he says…?
Good god, are you trying to give people a migraine? Somewhere a Russian PsyOp assassin has been accidentally activated😂
How about ultra high strength steel?
try blunt force not pressure
Thanks a lot, wife heard me watching this and accused me of watching porn. 😡
Yeah, I get that. Imagine those budgie smugglers, thick, shiny black pubes and a luxuriant black moustache.... Pubes getting velcro'd together etc? Alright I'll stop...
LOL
It is welding porn for all the boys in a workshop.
There is an unpleasant high frequency sound in my left ear.
Next time, turn the background music down so we can hear you.
Ada penjual mesin nya yang ada di Indonesia ?
So it’s basically MiG
That constant alarm clock in the background was too much.... Screw this
I wish the price of these was less. Perhaps as they "catch on" more in the future the price will come down, much like the microwave back in the day. Right now the cost is very restrictive for the person that doesn't do a lot of welding day in and day out.
Theres not much point to this test without a hydraulic press that measures force. Just hand cranking it on a bench doesn't tell us much.
Don't forget your N95 when using this :)
That's not a weld, that's fusion
They're exactly the same thing.
I dig the 70's porno music in the background.
When you use no wire....what is holding the welded pieces together? Is it just the melted original surface? That's it?
No. it's a blend of (thin) air and atmospheric glue.
Please oh please get rid of the music
You would be correct. The technique is used on items that typically don't need the reinforcement of filler material. Only possible if the fit up is exceptionally tight.
Yess parent material
.is all there is...bullshitt vid
@@kevinchamberlain7928 hahablahhaagaahaa
@2:28 he is tightening it against the table....tons of pressure...no shit you're not going to bend the table genius
Dude, can’t even watch this because of the music. It’s like your content was just back round for the music.
You can tell hes an experienced well trained welder by not having a need for leather gloves or anything.
It's not TIG or MIG or Stick. You can literally pick up most pieces quickly after welding them. The heat stays very concentrated in the beam. It would take feet of welding a single bead before deformation begins. Stainless steel I do wear gloves. Aluminum is no problem.
you seem to not know anything about laser welding. like he already explaind, you dont need gloves or anything, just glasses...
@@p__jay Yep, clearly expert weldors... (And yes, that IS the proper term...but you pros already knew that).
@@itsapleasantlifewe wear gloves and proper helmets not just because of heat, but because of the intense IR. That causes cancer. I don’t know how much IR is emitted from this process. I’ve seen others, including the company;s rep, welding with just a lair of gas welding goggles. But that doesn’t make it right. For examp,e, mist oriole call the welding work lead the ground lead, even though it’s not a ground.
The beeping music killed the video
Hope you dont have anyone else in your shop. The beam can bounce, especially off non-ferrous. Single bounce is just as hazardous as a direct shot. In the eye= permanent blindness
That depends on the optics. If it is a collimated beam you are correct . If it is a convergent beam focused on the weld zone/filler wire the risk is greatly reduced. Surgical laser cautery machines are focused - one meter from the normal cutting zone the energy is spread too wide to do any damage.
The welder's optics are probably similar , otherwise the device would be unnecessarily dangerous.
From what I have read, all laser welders use convergent beams.
Focusing the beam also makes the welder more efficient.
Copper yes, but brass no?
Thats like cheating for a very tough exam and getting away with it.😂😂😂😂😂.😢😢😢😢😢 i am just starting to use Flux core welding.
Your breaking it in a press now, but still no comparison or information about the force used to break it, so whats the point about this.
That annoying beeping! What is that in there for!
Is this an ad?
Repost without the music. Would liked to have watched it, but I can't concentrate with the unnecessary noise playing while you are talking.
No music please