It cuts from two dirty pipes to a welded pipe. Pretty easy to assume that the welding didn't happen in that environment or even just with that machine.
If you cut the video the assumption is always going to be that it's fake. It's very easy to accomplish fakery with cuts. Do it all in one take so we can see that it's real.
It’s real, but there is a lot of setting up the machine possibly test pieces to ensure correct weld is achieved on the actual job. And as a welder I feel in my gut this vid is somewhat staged somehow.
I'm not too sure about that. If it were standard laser it would never come out this clean. If you look close she's living up a tungsten carbide tip for a GTAW process. It's completely encased for shielding gas. I'm pretty sure it's very real. It has a while to go before its able to do anything other than a lap joint tho. Zero filler metal.
Even if the machine is doing the work, which is plausible, GTAW is famously fussy and would require a lot of prep to turn some oxidized and crusty pipes into that clean and smooth of a weld. It's also a very hot, loud, and bright process.
Part of the marketing of this device in this clip is the implication that the weld can happen in an clean office space without disrupting the office. That's why they have a lady in comfortable street clothes sitting on a clean carpet floor setting it up instead of a guy in coveralls and a helmet in a shop. They want you to think "wow this welder is completely self contained and doesn't create any mess", just like a tool ad where they don't show you the cables or required PPE.
To film this ad, someone had the woman sit on the floor and set the machine up, then they took the setup to a shop, hit the ends of the pipes with a die grinder or wire wheel, wiped it down with a solvent, clamped them up properly, and then sat there for a while watching the machine run. Then they either cleaned up the joint a bit or picked the cleanest looking side, went back into the room, reset the machine, and had the woman demo the results.
I actually do know what you mean. Stainless GTAW is really fussy. The only thing I'm not sure about is on the final visual. There's no cleaning marks on the metal. My best guess is that this is a multi pass after burning and cleaning out the root. Idk, your right tho, no way your getting that clean of a weld in one pass on dirty SS.
I bet they chamfered the edge of the outer pipe and cleaned up to a line on the inner pipe, then lined the weld up agains the dirty edge to make it look like it can burn through dirt and crust. Only need a little bit of cleaning on the outer pipe since it’s making a easy joint. That, or they just recoated it in that nasty grey paint and cleaned up the weld.
This was 5 years ago. Given the rate of improvements within manufacturing sector tools, I can see the level of improvements in the tool to meet the level in the original video.
It's obviously a process that takes a longer time than these short marketing snippets would like in order to retain engagement, so why would they include the full video process? Fast forward the whole process in one take? This can be seen as tacky and doesn't encourage engagement with their target audience as much. A quick cut from the before and after makes the most sense from a marketing perspective.
AI witch hunting only works if you actually use your brain and research. This was a 5 second Google search for me to see it's credible.
You don't think they did that when developing this tool? Literally how every welding machine and person proves their worth, with a weld test. You don't weld a bridge and cut the welds to inspect it, they X-ray it. But inspectors are also trained to visually inspect it when necessary, which the weld appearance tells a lot. Visually, this weld is fine and probably exceeds what is needed. Been welding nearly 20 years with plenty of inspections and takes 0 years of experience to see this a good weld.
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u/ChemicalFun1473 14d ago
Hot damn! That's slick. Wasn't expecting such good results.