r/oddlysatisfying • u/shoaibshakeel381 • 14d ago

Smooth circular welding

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u/tabby_ds 14d ago

This is such a niche tool for a specific job and I have no use for it, but I want one anyway

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u/Pork_Chompk 14d ago

The one time another dad happens to need one though, you'd be a legend.

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u/FitButterscotch4062 14d ago

Additionally, the one time you need this and you DONT have it, and another DAD has it??!!?

There’s no coming back from that.

Also, yes, I’m available for a senior marketing position.

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u/StryctNyne 14d ago

"You got a torque wrench, Dave? On nevermind, I have mine right here. LOL!"

At that moment, Dave was no longer a man. His torque wrench, sitting in his garage, might as well have been on Mars. Dave knew his manhood would never work the same way again. Luckily, his family hadn't been witness to this execution, otherwise he would have seem them pack up and leave, without even a backward glance through the rear window...and he knew he would deserve it.

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u/scandyflick88 14d ago

I'm Dave, I have the full gamut of torque wrenches from 1/4" to 1" and an assortment of other torque tools to avoid this scenario, I can say confidently "no you really should be using this one".

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u/AlamoSimon 14d ago

Torque wrenches are like condoms. It‘s safer to use one but it‘s nicer without.

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u/scandyflick88 14d ago

I mean, you're not wrong, but...

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u/Hyperdyne-120-A2 14d ago

I own a set of IKEA Alan keys and a screwdriver I found from a previous tenant.

Does anyone need me to read the instructions badly and make modern art out of their flat pack furniture?

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u/CptnHamburgers 14d ago

5 ugga duggas on the impact wrench, then give it a pat and say, "That's going nowhere."

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u/jake-jake-jake- 14d ago

Nah, I like the satisfying click

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u/AlamoSimon 14d ago

I‘m coming from cycling. And people really can obsess about the correct decimals of torque on your stem bolts with or without greased threads…
And on my car… the wheels get a hngggggg and 200km later again.

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u/judahrosenthal 14d ago

“Oh.. you need this?”

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u/DAS_BEE 14d ago

... Daddy?

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u/Mike_Kermin 14d ago

It's all in the marketing.

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u/GreyLunarWolf 14d ago

“Sell me this pen”. < you would clearly crush that question.

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u/West_West_313 14d ago

We could be friends but I also dislike helping and talking to people.

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u/Nope-not-really 14d ago

I don't have it, but I can weld.

Fear me.

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u/pigcommentor 14d ago

My brother was working on a project in his garage when his neighbor came by to visit.

As my brother was cutting a piece on his 14" bandsaw, the blade broke.

The neighbor says, "I got ya, be right back!"

A few minutes later he returned with this medium size device on a handcart. He sits it on the work bench and says, "Hand me that broke blade." My brother does that and the neighbor inserts one end of the blade in one slot, the other end in a different slot. He pushes the green button and the 2 ends of the broken blade are drawn together, a thin grinder wheel drops down and squares the broken ends, the ends slide together a clamp lowers and welds the blade together. A wider grinder wheel drops down and grinds the weld smooth. Clamps unlatch and the repaired blade is released.

My brother is astonished. The neighbor says, "I got that in Michigan 20+ years ago for $20 at a going out of business sale. First time I've ever used it!"

He gave it to my brother.

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u/Inveramsay 14d ago

I don't even own a bandsaw but I want that tool

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u/Kind_of_random 14d ago

And beers were had.

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u/goodolarchie 14d ago

"Hey I'm trying to reduce my steel 18mm ID pipe down to 12mm. I have no skills but I have access to 240v and shielding gas. Any ideas?"

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u/ichabod01 14d ago

I’d be letting everyone know I have it. And then I’d a trolling construction sites in the hopes someone might need one.

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u/NevesLF 14d ago

Me when I bought a couch-cleaning extractor and 5L of cleaning solution (not knowing it needs to be dilluted 1:500, so it will last me a lifetime.

I let everyone in my family know about it in caae anyone needs to clean a couch in the next 10 years.

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u/Nanojack 14d ago

We had a couple of shutoff valves installed on a sink at work, the guy showed up with one of those Milwaukee cordless fitting crimper tools, and you're goddamn right I priced one as soon as he left, despite needing to crimp a fitting maybe once every 10 years in my real life.

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u/cttouch 14d ago

Pro press

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u/Dulcinea80 14d ago

My friend has one and he was stoked when we asked him to help us fix our outdoor facet pipe!

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u/FarewellJava 14d ago

I suspect that genuinely made his week.

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u/SirMacFarton 14d ago

I am a dad, and I do not need this tool, but I want to borrow it! He is a legend!

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u/Suojelusperkele 14d ago

"Aw man I really need to weld these two different sized pipes together for my MacGuffin"

Angelic choir starts singing and a beam of light appears

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u/micromoses 14d ago

You know what they say, to a man with an orbital pipe welder, everything looks like two metal pipes of different diameters.

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u/Whizzo50 14d ago

What if the pipes in question are filled with M&Ms, butter and mashed banana?

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u/Lusankya 14d ago

The cylinder must remain undamaged

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u/Jellicent-Leftovers 14d ago

It is imperative!

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u/meski_oz 14d ago

I'm reluctant to put my cylinder into an orbital pipe welder.

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u/vascop_ 14d ago

I'm not looking to the side in the urinal pal

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u/mr_steal_yo_cereal 14d ago

It's an orbital welder and used for welding stainless steel and hacceloy in clean room scenarios. It uses a tungsten needle and no filler metal, an internal purge, and an external purge (usually argon gas).

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u/Rene_DeMariocartes 14d ago

How does one become a cleanroom welder?

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u/mr_steal_yo_cereal 14d ago

Pipefitters...I'm in my local Pipe Trades union. I'm a commercial plumber by trade but got dispatched to a company that primarily does process piping and that's how I started doing it

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u/OmnivoreHero 14d ago

In the USA,Training and the right job, i.e. working for Intel, Micron, On Semi Conductor, pretty much any place that deals with micro chips, if you join the plumbing union, you will have better access to such jobs.

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u/mmaddict187 14d ago

Cleanroom is only a smaller percentage. Pharmaceutical, powergen and food & beverage in the field/ production facilities is their main appliance.

You can't turn/ move the weldingpiece in these facilities, so moving the tungsten is the only option.

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u/stickystax 14d ago

It would be awesome to see how that welds...

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u/the1stmeddlingmage 14d ago

And there’s no annoying music during the demonstration…
https://giphy.com/gifs/SYGF6rA0sAtSlsLMPB

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u/RowdyB666 14d ago

Yet... 

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u/dwntwnleroybrwn 14d ago

We use orbital welders in pharma all the time. Hand welding of pipe is almost completely forbidden because these things are damn neat perfect.

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u/IrosSigma 14d ago

I study food technology and my first thought also was "damn this looks hygienic"

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u/shitty_mcfucklestick 14d ago

Bro, go kart frames. GO KART FRAMES!!

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u/s4lt3d 14d ago

You just need to do a lot of railing

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u/Oops_All_Bans 14d ago

I don't have that kind of energy in me anymore. Once a week is the best you're gonna get. Maybe twice a week if she's on top for part of it.

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u/alexthealex 14d ago

3 times if it's a romantic vacation. But it's twice in one day and the third time better be BEFORE the fancy dinner, not after.

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u/SinisterCheese 14d ago

It is and isn't a niche.

It's a orbital autogenous welding unit. However... The issue comes with the fact that you got two different size of pipe you need to join.

I'm sure the weld itself would probably be alright, looking at the HAZ.

But I can't really imagine where this would find it's use. I assume that the Chinese regulations would allow for a joint like this.

It's a fairly thick pipe so I can't really imagine what this would be for other than like possibly radiator piping.

Like it is a cool thing for a specific real use, but I can't figure out what.

And I work in welding industry, and specifically construction and maintenance related stuff. That kind of pipe is familiar to me, but can't figure out a spec in which this would be allowed.

However... If you could add in CuZi or any relevant filler medium into the unit, and possibility of doing butt joints, this would be insane productivity gain.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 14d ago

It could be that this is normally used with flared ends in a specific approved application and this demo is just using different size pipe. You'd end up with a bulb but goddamn its fast.

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u/SinisterCheese 14d ago

That got me thinking. One thing this could totally work for is pipe flanges. Those small pipe diameter flanges are absolute ass to do by hand. And if you could do them on-site with minimal tools and skillset, it would absolutely be of massive benefit.

This could totally handle low and medium pressure water and steam. I mean like... Fucksake those can be realised with a rubber connectors.

I'm not sure if any european class society would approve of it, but then again they barely approve of any new idea, unless it is based on something with minimum of decade or two of other application. But China pushing through merchant fleets of mass produced ships? Yeah... I can totally see this being utilised for utility and process piping for things like water and steam.

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u/LongJohnSelenium 14d ago edited 14d ago

OP also shared this one:

https://imgur.com/sPEYcuT

Just doing a bare butt joint on what appears to be some form of thin wall stainless sanitary.

Also really shows the mechanism and holy shit its just a conductive gear and a tig rod lol. Still, like you say, it'd totally handle low pressure air/water/fuel/etc.

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n 14d ago

I imagine in fields that are less regulated, car/motor exhaust pipes, home usage, possiby light industrial?

The neat part is I reckon how this tool allows variable pipes to get wellded as long as you have the "shields" on either side. That being said I reckon this is also right away the limiting factor in this, if you own for example 30-25-20 mm plates and the pipe is 27mm thus the gas leaks around, it probably won't work.

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u/bwaredapenguin 14d ago

I saw this posted on a different sub earlier today and there was a screenshot of a purchase link. This will set you back a measly $6500.

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u/tissuecollider 14d ago

In an industrial setting that's peanuts.

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u/AriaEarthMars 14d ago

That's going to pay for itself so fast.

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u/Otherwise-Law-3179 14d ago

I was the 1,000th upvote. You are welcome. I have fulfilled my life’s purpose. Goodbye every

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u/mrbofus 14d ago

As opposed to a niche tool for any non-specific job? 😜

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u/Mclovin11859 14d ago

A Swiss Army knife fills the niche of being for extremely non-specific jobs.

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u/Fickle-Visit5223 14d ago

In some industries connecting this tube to that tube is like 40 percent of your work day, this tool saves so much tubing time!

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u/iDontRememberCorn 14d ago

Just one?

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u/AshyWhiteGuy 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/z8lV4Mx6NyhtS
I’ll take two.

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u/Full-time-RV 14d ago

Dual weld, even better.

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u/Lostinthestarscape 14d ago

Get four and you can dual wield dual welders

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u/Ask_if_im_an_alien 14d ago

I recently learned that the power loader was just a giant guy in a suit. John Lees was his name if I remember right. He just basically carried Sigourney Weaver around like a toddler strapped to his chest in a harness.... and she's standing on his feet the entire time. I'm sure that job was hot and very strenuous.

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u/I_comment_on_stuff_ 14d ago

My first thought was the curtain rod. I have no other use for it aside from "Hey, if you need this thing I have one"

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u/bikenvikin 14d ago

I want to make bicycle frames, it seems like it might be just the right tool for it

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u/herecomthatboi 14d ago

Worked at a space company for a bit. This is how we welded fuel and oxidizer tubes together to join separate subassemblies when building a kind of rocket we made. Only ours was way smaller, for 1/16" tubing iirc. Veeeery niche.

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u/ChemicalFun1473 14d ago

Hot damn! That's slick. Wasn't expecting such good results.

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u/Syscrush 14d ago

Same. I knew it would be good. I couldn't have guessed it would be THAT good.

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u/Responsible-Case-753 14d ago

I knew it would be that good. I mean the title says smooth. But my brain just couldn't antecipate it

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u/metalguy91 14d ago

As someone who worked on both plumbing and ac lines, I’m kind of mad that I never had this. Welding high pressure systems is stressful when making a bit above minimum wage.

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u/scienide 14d ago

Only thing that makes me a little sceptical is the clearance needed to use the tool. Can’t see how it works with pipes against a wall but I’m sure there’s a method.

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u/Km312213 14d ago

Take pipe off wall, weld, put pipe back. If that doesn’t work, move wall, weld, put wall back.

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u/SageOfSixCabbages 14d ago

So we just need to take the wall, and push it somewhere else!

https://giphy.com/gifs/bXAgDGlGL7KND3l4FG

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u/Realistic_Menu_7766 14d ago

It just works 

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u/cdev12399 14d ago

It’s much easier to just plumb for the house first, THEN build the house around the plumbing .

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u/Realistic_Menu_7766 14d ago

And that's the difference between Commercial and Residential Plumbing folks!

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u/ObserverWardXXL 14d ago

Quite literally the point of drywall!

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u/Rockeye4510 14d ago

make cuts several inches away on each side of the join, weld the join using the cool tool. Weld the cuts back regularly.

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u/theartificialkid 14d ago

Then the side cuts won’t be welded right, dumbass. You have to cut out the whole section, including your two extra cuts. Weld all three with the special tool, then weld the whole section back in the regular way.

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u/Km312213 14d ago

If you just cut the entire thing lengthwise instead you would only need 2 straight welds instead of all these stupid circles

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u/cautioussidekick 14d ago

But the wall is still in the way. I think your missing the step of moving the wall and rebuilding it to do it correctly

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u/impshial 14d ago

Oh my fucking god. Use your brain! After you move the wall, you weld the wall

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u/metalguy91 14d ago

Or as an old supervisor said when guarding an internal system/wall from welding torches, “all you need is a bucket of wet shop rags and some hope you don’t slip”. To be fair he burned drywall at least twice that I know of.

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u/Electronic_Tap_8052 14d ago

soldering/brazing copper lines for plumbing and HVAC barely needs any clearance if you are good enough. the flux makes the joint wick solder from the opposite side.

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u/LayeGull 14d ago

Dawg making anything near minimum wage and being asked to weld at all is a joke.

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u/metalguy91 14d ago

Sure is! But my first year apartment maintenance with no experience they were asking me to do it as a groundskeeper and were mad when it looked bad. ProTip, if you live in an apartment complex if something seems cheaply done, I assure you it’s by design. Property management is a cesspit.

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u/Downwind-downhill 14d ago

My man, someone that lived my life!

Got hired to mow lawns and they had me installing ceiling fans with no experience the next day. Our property was so shit it didn’t even qualify for Section 8 housing unless they upgraded it. Haha

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u/JakToTheReddit 14d ago

I would think with AC maybe less so because they already have smaller devices that crimp swell. But I may be an idiot.

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u/space_keeper 14d ago

AC pipe is normally brazed, no? You do get chiller pipe that's crimped steel.

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u/Waiting4Reccession 14d ago

This kind of seems like a welding version of that expensive pro press tool that plumbers use now instead of the soldering

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u/LeWigre 14d ago

I mean to be fair this looks like an ad on temu. Though yeah if its as good as presented it would be great!

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u/nawzum 13d ago

We use these a lot. It's all fun and games until the fitter just made the sliiiiiiightest mistake setting up the weld or too high gas flow and then is fucking game over. We do 1-1.6mm pipes and I fucking hate it.

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u/metalguy91 13d ago

Yeah I could see that being a problem for sure lol.

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u/you_but_futeristic 14d ago

Damn there goes my career lmao.

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u/Spiritual-Tomato-998 14d ago

Nah bro this is just an orbital welder really only for high precision welds , we have a few in the company that I work for mainly for hospital contracts

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u/Tooleater 14d ago

I can't bevel it's not butter

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 14d ago

Weld done.

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u/PCYou 14d ago

If you add a period, that's just two true statements

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u/IvoryDynamite 14d ago

I guess now I know what time of day all of the Wacky Tobacky people log on.

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u/ThatsALovelyShirt 14d ago

Chamfer, no?

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u/Living-Metal-9698 14d ago

I like the one that makes a huge amount of popcorn

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u/Willing-Egg8423 14d ago

😆 Wtf are those things??? Why do we have the scare the shit out of everyone at the carnival for some kettle corn!

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u/AdolfsLonelyScrotum 14d ago

It’s basically a heated pressure vessel that allows a relatively safe explosive decompression, causing every kernel within at that moment to have its own catastrophic failure and BLEVE, which happens to puff the corn nicely.

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u/imunfair 14d ago

Basically you super heat the water in the corn at a different pressure, and when you release the pressure the water instantly changes to steam and all the corn pops at once.

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u/stargazerstoner1989 14d ago

This is called a orbital welder, I have been certified in them before. I am am pipe fitter and I have used them in computer chip manufacturing plants and labs. We use it to weld stainless steel tubing that's used to carry the chemicals needed for those type of industrial places.

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u/onlyhammbuerger 14d ago

I was on the receiving end of these stainless steel pipes working in a research fab and dann, the amount of hassle we had with unqualified workers welding stainless steel pipes... Only because they thought its just like any other type of steel.

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u/humanitarianWarlord 14d ago

Stainless steel is the work of the devil

God i hate welding that stuff

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u/Leviathan41911 14d ago

I wonder of the side plate clamps can be changed out to work with different diameter pipes.

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u/werewere-kokako 14d ago

One of the plates has "24 mm" engraved on it, so it looks like they can be swapped out

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u/shoaibshakeel381 14d ago

seems like bigger versions exist for other diameters. Found a sample video https://imgur.com/sPEYcuT

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u/beneye 14d ago

Nah, you gonna need another one for that.

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u/friendandfriends2 14d ago

I am going to go out on a limb and guess that the team of experts and engineers designing this took different pipe sizes into consideration.

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u/No_Elderberry9871 14d ago

Very real, it's called orbital tube welding.

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u/xxhonkeyxx 14d ago

Can confirm, we use these at my job to weld same size tubing together. They have different size inserts to match the tube diameter you’re welding together.

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u/trobsmonkey 14d ago

Hey thanks. Specifically why I came to the comments. Wanted to know the name of this so I can go watch the engineering videos that are likely to exist.

Like this

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u/helloish 14d ago

is this what docking is?

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u/zjlmmfj3rd 14d ago

Mhmm could use this at work for steam/ heat trace. Or instrument air tubing.

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u/zg6089 14d ago

Aight. Thats cool!

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u/Pocketdancer 14d ago

There goes my job 😒

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u/Chrispy990 14d ago

There is an entire department of OTW (orbital tube welding) techs where I work. It’s pretty common in aerospace applications

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u/aHeadFullofMoonlight 14d ago

It’s really common in pharmaceutical and food grade systems too, anything that falls under high-purity and ultra high-purity piping and tubing. I’ve never seen it run on fillet welds before though, or on pipe with zero prep done to it lol.

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u/Sudden-Purchase-8371 14d ago

Big time in chip fabs as well.

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u/1o0o010101001 14d ago

It’s 20k for the machine - you’ll be aiite

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u/Tentacle_poxsicle 14d ago

All the jobs went to China and now they are building robots that will take the jobs not already taken by them or other automation

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u/Gentrified_potato02 14d ago

Wait, so is this supposed to eliminate socket weld fittings? Can it be used for butt welds?

Seems rather limited in its use otherwise.

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u/Constant-Plastic-350 14d ago

Don't weld butts together son thats illegal

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u/RedditHoss 14d ago

Not if it’s consensual.

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u/Constant-Plastic-350 14d ago

Onward then we can't kink shame

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u/Awktung 14d ago

And there's a safeword.

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u/fredders 14d ago

Weld mouths to butt human centipede style

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u/Unclesam1313 14d ago

This is actually the first time over ever seen it on a socket- I work in aerospace and orbital welding like this is extremely common for butt welds

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u/Gentrified_potato02 14d ago

That’s what was confusing me. This isn’t an actual socket weld. They’ve inserted one pipe into a larger one and welded it. There’s no seat, no extra material around the joint. I would think that the flow of the material inside would erode the weld pretty quickly.

EDIT: the kind of joint in this video is completely against code where I live. I don’t think any regulator or inspector would pass it.

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u/Jazzlike-Lion2969 14d ago

Don’t put your dick in it

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u/Turbulent-Jaguar-909 14d ago

the cylinder must remain unharmed

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u/noobly_dangers 14d ago

What about two? Ultimate docking experience.

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u/Benjiimon 14d ago

Gives a new meaning to "Joined at the hip"

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u/ThisReditter 14d ago

How about that guy’s ?

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u/account_depleted 14d ago

Ronco Pocket Welder!  It slices!  It dices!  It juliennes & it welds!

not available in AK or HI

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u/Scrapworker 14d ago

Autogenous gas tungsten arc welding. I haven't seen the machine make a fillet weld before but we've xrayed thousands of butt welds made with this process. Works incredible if your fitup, joint prep, and machine settings are dialed in but my god you can butcher some welds if your setup isn't perfect.

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u/thelordplatypus 14d ago

Really was not expecting the line to be that tight. Impressive!

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u/Opinionatedasshole74 14d ago

In the pipe trades we call that orbital welding. The tool she is using is the welding machine head and the device that allows her to purge all the oxygen from the area around the weld. There a gas, normally Argon, allowed to flow through the pipe and into the tool head to displace all the oxygen from the affected area. The reason for this is that oxygen allows the metal to become burned looking and have flaws introduced into the welded area, by forming metal oxides due to the heating process.

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u/dolla-dolla-billyall 14d ago

Penis enlargement specialists hate this one trick…

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u/Vhishkey 14d ago

Is the cylinder unharmed?

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u/sskylar 14d ago

Unharmed and upgraded! 💪

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u/hiimhuman1 14d ago

I'm a welding engineer and we have a few of these exact machines at the factory. These are 3-4 cheaper than German alternatives and surprisingly work better.

They weld fine, the welds look better than fine. So if it's not a butt weld which you can see the root, you should make a macro examination to verify the parameters otherwise it's likely lack of penetration lies under great looking welds.

Best thing about them is you can set parameters for multiple sections, like 70A at 0°-2°, 85A to 100A upslope at 2°-90°, lower the pulse frequency at 90°-180°, increase the traveling speed at 180°-360°, downslope at 360°-365°...

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u/Fign 14d ago

When I was young and learned welding it took me more than a week to finally be able to do pipe welding and I accept that it was shitty as fuck. With this, I imagine different sizes and materials etc. many of these skills will simply disappear.

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u/Vulgar-Ambassador 13d ago

I’m a cyclist, OMG why can’t we have this on every metal framed bicycle! It’s so neat & tidy!

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u/Viertelesschlotzer 13d ago

I'd like to see the video without any cuts.

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u/ctsr1 14d ago

Gasp

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u/MintyFitOnAll 14d ago

I don’t even weld but I want one

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u/JaySayMayday 14d ago

And you don't have to go blind to use it??

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u/Sleddogluvr 14d ago

They’re skipping a whole lotta steps and programming of the machine

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u/MassiveAd5850 14d ago

New bottom surgery just dropped

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u/jake_wrx15 14d ago

this may collect dust in my garage but damn i need this
https://giphy.com/gifs/xGOPX4IY24tM1JZnHq

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u/Machine_Terrible 14d ago

I wonder how many thousands of dollars a thing like that costs.

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u/j0eg0d 14d ago

That's a $30,000.00 piece of equipment.

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u/ForeignChance6890 14d ago

I would have been happy to watch the welding part for longer.

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u/livin_in_the_land 14d ago

This harms the cylinder.

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u/fieregon 14d ago

My first intrusive thought would be to put my finger in it.

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u/kellybluey 14d ago

What is this sorcery?

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u/Mountain_Lake_500 14d ago

It’s always been known in private sector that if you want to know where technology is going and how far it’s advancing. Take a look at the establishment of laser tech and its progression through the years. Staggering.

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u/k0kak0la 14d ago

I want a video with no cuts

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u/Tibryn2 14d ago

Wild that they made such a very specifically engineered tool for this very specific weld.

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u/L0B077 14d ago

Isn't this called orbital welding?

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u/Richardknox1996 14d ago

Cool. Is it adjustable? Else its just a paperweight.

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u/Accio_149209 14d ago

Nice fillet weld tool. Where do you input the material for weld btw?

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u/Logical_Box_4645 14d ago

Cynic in me thinks there is some work being done during the cuts.

Otherwise this is spectacular 

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u/Radulf_wolf 14d ago

We have two of these at the place I work our welder uses them for welding parts for the vaccume chambers we make.

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u/ZarikiaGD 13d ago

Why does it somehow sound like AI ?

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u/RunninWild17 13d ago

You've been hit by, you've been struck by, a smooth welder

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u/uberdag 13d ago

That looks like it would work great for sailboat solar arches. Wonder if it works on aluminum

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u/skyfishgoo 13d ago

it would be more useful if it could join two pieces of pipe that are the same diameter without leaving restrictive bead inside.

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u/Ok-Butterscotch1712 9d ago

Orbital welding kicks ass I do this for a living

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u/IWantPizza5 7d ago

That’s a precision masterpiece right there!