Fabtech Highlights for the Welding Enthusiast

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00:00I'm here for fab tech in Orlando 2024 let's take a look inside if you've never been to fab tech

00:08it's huge I mean there's all sorts of industrial equipment covering a massive amount of square

00:13footage I tried to capture what I think would be most interesting to those who watch my videos now

00:19here on the way in we had some freeform metal art from ray ripple pretty impressive talent there now

00:26laser welding was definitely a trend this year at the show here are some spot welds just showing how

00:34you can penetrate right through the material without adding any wire or anything like that

00:39and punch through now when you go to run a bead with this it's pretty interesting because the

00:44wire actually pushes you along from the wire feeder so it controls your travel speed and you get a

00:48really consistent result and you can even clean off your heat tent with that same laser and look

00:55at that that's that's pretty impressive tool now there were laser welders everywhere you looked

01:01around every corner there was some small company or maybe they're large overseas I'm not sure but they

01:07had their own little version of laser welders and that brings up a concern with safety and so there's

01:13a company there focused just on laser safety they've been doing a long time with the popularity of these

01:19handheld lasers it becomes more important and it's not as simple as it is with arc welding you've got to

01:25be really careful and you have to be an expert to determine what you need now I stopped by the

01:29quantum machinery booth I've been using my sigman table for a couple of years and it's just top

01:33notch it's a tool that's going to last a lifetime and the number of clamps and things they have

01:38available I really think that they're doing it better than anybody else with the amount of

01:43fixturing that's just in stock and available one of their new offerings that I was pretty excited

01:47about are these workbench style tables that are at a great price even for hobbyists to get into a nice

01:54table like this I wanted to check out the arc droid CNC plasma cutter it's a little plasma cutting

02:00robot that's pretty unique it's been on the market for a couple of years three things that make it

02:04hard for people to get into CNC plasma tables are big tables are expensive and CAD CAM learning curve

02:09scares the heck out of just click around the outside of that template drag if you want and it'll create

02:15the shape whatever shape you just wibbled or wobbled around you can also upload drawings or use shapes from

02:21their standard library to be able to piece together your own parts just right there on the fly in a

02:26compact package so I think it's pretty cool and innovative fireball tool was set up there with

02:32their squares and tables I've been using their squares for quite a while and I really like them

02:37I think that's a good product and something that was pretty cool is this new table topper for the

02:42portable nomad welding tables a nice little addition if you've watched my channel you've seen me use CK

02:47torches for a long time they have TIG torches for every need you can imagine and some other products

02:53too they had this foot pedal which has a handheld amperage control kind of like a gun you can put

02:58your TIG torch in I thought that was pretty unique there and they also had some welding machines and I

03:04couldn't help but give one a try it ran really well pretty nice stuff I just stopped by the Miller booth

03:10if you've watched my channel for any amount of time you know I like my Miller machines they had

03:15everything from heavy industrial stuff like this full robotic system engine drive welders and their

03:21own laser welding system and it ranged clear down to really light industrial stuff like this 120 volt

03:26mig that just came out last year as well as their small handheld plasma cutters now the Multimatic 220

03:33it's an ACDC TIG mig and stick is one of the most popular units for students in my courses and they've

03:38added a wireless foot pedal as an option to get with this kit right from the factory and it also

03:45has added the ability to run 6010 with some electronics upgrades inside the machine their

03:51dynasty TIG welders now have a digital interface throughout the whole product line which I really

03:56like I have an old dynasty before this was the case and if you want to do anything more than just

04:01the basic settings there are a lot of button presses with the old interface so I think this is a nice

04:06upgrade they also had some really interesting training equipment this is a very small virtual

04:13reality welding thing so you don't need a whole unit you can just use this small setup to give people

04:19a first idea I give it a try and my metaverse welding got a solid a minus I'd say right there

04:25now they also have some new weld cameras including one built right into a welding hood

04:31fronius is long been one of the most innovative companies in the welding industry they had live

04:36demos as well as their industrial equipment and a lot of their smaller units which these are really

04:41nice I mean top tier stuff now they had some build up with their robotic systems and it was really

04:49interesting to see they had a robot running right there on the floor just building up parts additive with

04:55robotic welding so I think that's pretty cool technology I saw that in a few places across the

05:01floor I stopped by the ESA booth and they had just a ton of different wire feed options in their medium

05:08industrial type units they had a battery powered welder that runs off of DeWalt batteries is pretty

05:14cool and then in their light industrial stuff they're real heavy on the wire feed not a lot of AC TIG there

05:20but they do have this rebel 205 that's been out for quite a while pretty popular with my course students

05:26and they have added a new water cooler option that's going to be coming out so if you have a

05:30rebel 205 you might want to check that out now one company that had a lot of new products announced is

05:37Lincoln this is their new battery powered welder and this one is interesting because it's all self

05:43contained there's not a separate charger like a lot of them they also had this new AC DC TIG MIG and stick

05:49all in one unit and they've made some updates to their square wave line in fact the one that's

05:55really interesting to me is this new square wave 300 look at that that's about the same size as the

06:00200 amp machine with 300 amps a compact water cooler all on a little cart be interesting to see that and

06:06they have a whole new lineup of plasma cutters now MK products is always fun to stop by they have really

06:12nice positioners in fact I have an old version of this smaller positioner there but what I didn't

06:18realize is how much they had for aluminum welding they have these wire feed units as well as full

06:23power supplies and all sorts of different push-pull guns all looks like really nice stuff so if you're

06:29into a lot of aluminum MIG MK products could be good to check out now uni weld is a oxy fuel company

06:36they've been around for a long time and what I didn't realize is they still make these torches in the

06:40USA at least a lot of them there and they have all kinds of different specialty heating units and

06:46different things if you're looking for specialty gas stuff it's amazing how much there is out there

06:52so this doesn't even scratch the surface but a few highlights that stood out to me thanks a ton for

06:57watching we'll see you next time

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