I do know, stacking dimes takes years of apply, and admittedly, there’s numerous delight that goes into displaying off these good dime-shaped beads you’ve got simply laid down on that customized gasoline tank you simply made in your candy customized Harley Panhead bobber (or Evo, no matter) in your $5,000 Miller TIG machine. Consider me, I’ve laid some fairly crusty beads in my day, I perceive.
XLaserLab simply put out a guaranteed-delivery Kickstarter for the extraordinarily transportable and beginner-friendly X1 Professional laser welder … that additionally cuts, cleans, and removes rust … And it runs off 120/240v!
Having private expertise with old-school torch welding, MIG, and caveman stick welding, the X1 Professional comes off a bit of insulting, to be sincere. It is designed to be so extremely simple {that a} newbie can simply choose it up and begin laying down good dimes, even on tremendous skinny materials down to eight thousandths of an inch (0.2 mm) with out melting by way of your challenge – and even deforming it. It does not require shielding gasoline and it could actually lay beads 4 occasions quicker than a conventional welder. That is to not say that it is beneath a professional both. The blokes that weld for a residing are making good use of the X1 Professional as nicely.
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It is like a welding GameShark cheat code.
When you’re not going to have the ability to weld any half-inch armor plating to your ‘dozer, the X1 Pro will reliably deal with metal to simply beneath an eighth (0.118 in / 3 mm). Which means the X1 Professional will work completely on all of the 18-20 gauge sheet metallic in your basic automobiles within the storage that you have been which means to revive for the final decade. And since laser welding produces far much less warmth than your MIG, you are not going to have to fret about warping whilst you’re patching out all these rust spots.
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Actually, you should not even must grind it both, because the X1 produces little to no slag in any respect. However in case you like grinding and having to wash up welds, this in all probability is not the appropriate product for you.
There’s additionally a smaller, extra transportable 26.5 lb (12 kg) model referred to as the X1 that may deal with welding all the pieces from stainless and carbon metal to galvanized sheets to simply over a sixteenth (0.0625 in / 2mm). It does not have the identical reducing, cleansing, or CNC compatibility options discovered on its greater brother, however in case you’re simply trying to weld stuff collectively, it is obtained what it takes.
And did I point out you’ll be able to even use it to weld underwater?
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The X1 Professional is a bit heftier of a bundle at 42 lb (19 kg), however with extra heft comes extra options. It could possibly deal with the identical materials varieties because the X1 (a bit thicker, as much as about an eighth of an inch) plus aluminum, brass, and copper to simply over a sixteenth. Yeah, even copper. You will even get much less zinc burn-off (until you are making an attempt to burn off zinc with the cleansing characteristic, that’s) when tackling brass with the X1 Professional because the laser is rather more centered, exact, and does not produce as a lot warmth as a TIG or MIG; so braze no extra for these thick brass bits!
Apart from the entire easy-to-weld-stuff side of the X1 Pro is the rust elimination characteristic of the welder. 90% of a robust weld is having well-prepped materials to work with. The X1 Professional can burn rust proper off the floor from about 1/4 inch (0.276 in / 7 mm) to about 2/3 of an inch vast (0.669 in / 17 mm) with a press of a button. No extra battling with a wire brush for days.
The X1 Professional additionally works as a modular laser cutter, simply reducing supplies from twenty thousandths (0.5 mm) to simply beneath an eighth (3 mm) in thickness. You may reduce hand-held, or you’ll be able to mount it to your CNC machine and begin plotting out good cuts.
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The X1 has just a few dials on the entrance, making it simple to pick the appropriate settings for the fabric kind and thickness. The X1 Professional contains a contact display with 16 completely different languages to simply punch in your welding, reducing, or cleansing parameters to get that good temp and width dialed in.
There are a number of equipment for the X1 Professional as nicely: A wire feeder, foot pedal change, specialised nozzles, and extra. On the time of writing, you will even obtain a complimentary pair of welding gloves, although all of the movies I’ve watched of the X1 Professional in motion are gloveless, actually illustrating how simple and protected the laser welder is.
So in case you’re uninterested in warping metallic, grinding for days, or simply desire a new enjoyable device for getting the job completed shortly (c’mon, it is a laser!), take a look at the Kickstarter for the X1 Pro!
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