@@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.
The music sounds like I'm either trying to sneak into a hotel to break into a safe, or I'm at my friend's house looking for a snack and I suddenly get hit on by his hot mom.
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.
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
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.
So i have seen many videos where they question the strength of a laser weld. So i wonder what if you layed a 7018 stick at the joint to be welded , would it be a better weld
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.
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.
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.
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.
What do you mean the world didn't break? The world broke right down the middle the reason the world broke down the middle is because it doesn't have a belly. All the wells are flat so they're all gonna break right down the middle.
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.
You went on the opposite side of the well bead where there was still a cavitation that's why I was able to bend if you put it on the wellside it probably would have snapped
Mate can I make a suggestion......turn down the stupid music so we can hear what you are trying to say .....will make the video way more beneficial....just saying
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
It was scrap from extrusion. Being a test there was no need to utilize expensive product. The idea of this was to see how well it could weld with anodized. We learned that we can laser clean the anodized and it becomes much nicer. That lesson was after this video was made.
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.
Lol you must either be sponsored by them, or you aren’t a very good fab guy. Those “break tests” are nothing like the break tests used by structural fabricators. In either of your “tests” you didn’t put the welds in a situation where they could fail, so the fact that they didn’t….kinda tells us nothing.
Your tchnique is flawed. Make your supports 1" high. Remove the swiveling, movable jaw from the c-clamp and repeat your experiment with swivel ball mount above the weld line. The moment your weld bead comes into contact with the surface of the tabletop, you are no longer applying bending tensile force to the weld. You are "unbending" the sample and compressing it. Not a good test.
I like the subject matter of the video, but the background music is grating.
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.
Who ever picked this music should be punched right in the face
The music sounds like I'm either trying to sneak into a hotel to break into a safe, or I'm at my friend's house looking for a snack and I suddenly get hit on by his hot mom.
That “beeping” in the background music is driving me insane!
That's a triangle.
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.
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!
Bro this video sound more like a music concert than a actual test.
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 remove the background music it's quite annoying plus it's hard to understand what you're saying!!!!!!!.
Thought you were pretty legit until you tried breaking the weld with your clamping technique - dude!!
This mans hands are gloves!! Damn near welding his hands and not even flinching!!
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!
What model lazer welder is that and where did you purchase it?
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.
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?
Very clean
At what pressure was the failure point at 5:20?
There is a alarm going off the whole vid that makes it so hard to watch
in a parallel universe ; youtube channels don't having people mugging and showing off their 3rd grade show and tell adlib skills
I killed my hamster listening to this constant iron gling gling sound
I see others have also mentioned it to you need to stop it or people will not watch gutted love this kind of video.
Thanks for sharing your works my friend! 😊🌎✨
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.
So i have seen many videos where they question the strength of a laser weld. So i wonder what if you layed a 7018 stick at the joint to be welded , would it be a better weld
Great Video, but sorry I thought an alarm was going off in my house while I was watching.
What welder is this?
What welder are we testing?
IPG laser welder
Very nice top quality so quick beautiful welding
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.
Hello, can you please tell me what goggles those are that you are wearing.
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.
That constant alarm clock in the background was too much.... Screw this
Weird ppe for welding. Badass though! Laser welding thats some star wars stuff right there.
Video was good but I kept wanting to check my smoke detector.
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.
My girlfriend heard that music and thought I was watching retro Bow chika Wow wow.
How much it cost to own one?
Good god, are you trying to give people a migraine? Somewhere a Russian PsyOp assassin has been accidentally activated😂
There is an unpleasant high frequency sound in my left ear.
Hello ...How many is the price from the laser machine ? this machine used gas and what wire used ? Thank
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.
Laser welder ... its pretty good
Up to 1600 watts. Just cost too much. Starting 10k
Next time, turn the background music down so we can hear you.
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
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.
What do you mean the world didn't break? The world broke right down the middle the reason the world broke down the middle is because it doesn't have a belly. All the wells are flat so they're all gonna break right down the middle.
have you weld 1mm aluminium with 1mm aluminium?
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.
If that riht angled weld was moulded solid it could not resist ythat hydraulic press any better ?
@2:28 he is tightening it against the table....tons of pressure...no shit you're not going to bend the table genius
Damn sure could of done without the music
What’s the best brand of fiber laser welding ?
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.
So it’s basically MiG
Repost without the music. Would liked to have watched it, but I can't concentrate with the unnecessary noise playing while you are talking.
You went on the opposite side of the well bead where there was still a cavitation that's why I was able to bend if you put it on the wellside it probably would have snapped
I agree prob break it with my hands...!
Mate can I make a suggestion......turn down the stupid music so we can hear what you are trying to say .....will make the video way more beneficial....just saying
it's my uncle
Thats like cheating for a very tough exam and getting away with it.😂😂😂😂😂.😢😢😢😢😢 i am just starting to use Flux core welding.
No music please
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
I cant hear a thing you say turn the music off
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.
try blunt force not pressure
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.
what kind if wire the machine use is it the same as MiG welder
You need to learn proper weld testing procedures.
Its Aluminium
How much for one of these laser welder
Turn the music volume up and make a video about the songs and don't answer anyone's questions!
What brand laser welder
How much that machine go for
Weld a small boat. I don’t think so. Wind chimes should be ok.
Copper yes, but brass no?
Can't here you!
Why is the background music 70s porno music? 😂.
How much more control do you have over the puddle vs a normal arc ?
What brand of Laser welder is this
Upman
Music? Why!
Contents pretty good, music……..😢
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
awesome!
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.
The Background track makes your video unpalatable.
Constructive criticism!
The extrusion was a mess, it looks anodised to me and that doesn’t weld well.
It was scrap from extrusion. Being a test there was no need to utilize expensive product. The idea of this was to see how well it could weld with anodized. We learned that we can laser clean the anodized and it becomes much nicer. That lesson was after this video was made.
You are realy punishing your welding bench clamps doing that to them !
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.
Music made me stop watching after 30 seconds. Absolutely unnecessary
Is this an ad?
Ada penjual mesin nya yang ada di Indonesia ?
That beeping tone is so annoying I muted the video and just watched it silent.. Horrible
Please drop the music it's annoying
Drop the music.....and the beeping is annoying
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
His welding test doesn’t measure up……..
Edit this video and get rid of that horrible background noise music it ant
How about ultra high strength steel?
Lol you must either be sponsored by them, or you aren’t a very good fab guy. Those “break tests” are nothing like the break tests used by structural fabricators.
In either of your “tests” you didn’t put the welds in a situation where they could fail, so the fact that they didn’t….kinda tells us nothing.
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.
had to mute the video, music loud can't hear you
Your tchnique is flawed. Make your supports 1" high. Remove the swiveling, movable jaw from the c-clamp and repeat your experiment with swivel ball mount above the weld line. The moment your weld bead comes into contact with the surface of the tabletop, you are no longer applying bending tensile force to the weld. You are "unbending" the sample and compressing it. Not a good test.
Music is terrible, it has a high pitched sound that is ear busting. Had to stop watching.