Laser Welding?

[maxkillz]

I was reading through a book about welding today I didn't know they used lasers to weld things together I only thought they used lasers to cut things apart

I only got a quick picture of the top of the page because I was in a hurry. will take better pictures tomorrow

 

[iewed]

Is this by any chance a 3 volume book on Lasers and their Applications?

 

[maxkillz]

its a book about welding I was just surprised that it talked about laser welding considering it's 20 some odd years old or so

 

[iewed]

The US/Russian Laser Race was about 30-40 years ago, so I'm not too surprised.

 

[pcfreakk]

nice one dude

 

[Balisong]

Yep, we use lasers for welding, I believe one name is Electron-beam welding. We also use friction welding. There are tones of other types, GTAW (aka TIG) GMAW(mig) and SMAW(stick). I used to TIG weld aluminum as a career...I miss it though.

 

[journeyman]

I used a Laser Star laser welder for about a year. Stacked-coin style welds of less than a mm in diameter. Then I'd load the program for smoothing that used a lower power, wider beam, and often different ramping. Awesome on platinum, great on gold, great on argentium sterling, but regular sterling was torture as you had to crank the voltage and it tends to bounce back under your fingernails....

LaserStar Technologies
HMNS Smith Gem Vault

Oh yeah, $30,000 machine. Ouch.