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Recreational Mechanic
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Location: Northern Colorado, USA
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Originally Posted by unclebilly
What would it do on sheet metal?
The examples shown are relatively thick, especially the second video.
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That was my first thought too...thinner metal like the body of a rusty vintage car...it could warp from use if it's generating heat.
If the pulse duration of the laser is short with a long thermal recycle time it would be ablating the rust vs. burning it off hence less heat generation. Hitting high peak power at a very short pulse would be ideal.
I wonder what type of laser it is...too expensive to be a diode. Maybe a micropulsed CO2?
Ugh...I know too much about lasers.
Also what happens when you hit bondo?
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Last edited by Nickshu; 03-06-2016 at 05:13 AM..
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