Metal Engraving Laser is Crazy Fast: Gweike G2 Fiber Laser 

It's a neat piece of equipment, for sure.

I haven't seen his videos, I'll have to check them out. I have seen some of the laser cleaners and it's really cool. I'm seeing some cut, weld, clean combo units retailing for $10k. Still not cheap, but certainly getting into the ballpark for a lot of shops.

When you mentioned restoration, I thought of a process the was used to clean various plastic mold components, right in the press. It involves blasting the surfaces with granulated dry ice. I do not know if this would help you, but the fact that there is no grit or mess after the dry ice evaporates. Some of the machine dealers will demo their equipment on your problems, at their facility.

That's concerning, is it the same model? It has a 2 year warranty, have you reached out to them? I'd really be interested to know how well they take care of an issue like this. If you run into any problems getting it resolved, you can shoot me an email at the address on my about page and I'll reach out to my contacts there.

They've only just been released and Gweike will definitely help you out if you have issues.

Thanks! I appreciate it!

Thanks for the tip! I'll have to give that a try.

Thanks!

Yeah, I can give that a try tomorrow and reply back. I'll let you know.

It worked great. I made a short vid showing the process: ru-vid.comqOChLcHpH8A?feature=share

I think it would work well for that. My eyes aren't that old, but I have a lot of old tools and I have trouble seeing some of them as well; when a tray gets dumped I usually end up recruiting my kids to help sort them out :)

I just tried it out and it worked great. I made a short vid showing how it went: ru-vid.comqOChLcHpH8A?feature=share

And i oppen it to see if ther is a cooling fan but ther is not , can i add one inside and how pleas ?

I'm surprised at what the 20 watts can do, but it is a limitation. A lot of the higher wattage units also seem to have a much larger working area. It's funny, I get an unreal amount of email about things to show on the channel and I almost always say no, but it gives an interesting preview of what I'll see showing up all over the internet. As a general rule, I have 3 companies that I work with regularly and I really believe in their products. Occasionally, I'll take a flyer on a one off and I thought this looked cool enough to give it a shot, though they asked me several months before they actually sent it. Turned out to be a nice little unit and I think it'll be really helpful on some projects coming up on the channel this year. I always appreciate your comments and hope you've had a great holiday and have a happy new year!

@@TimWelds same here Tim. I need one so I can stop physically engraving with my mill, which is a lot of work. I’m doing scales for equipment I build, as well as for rotary measurements. It has to be deeper for that. I’d also like to use it for metal panels and the like. This is just barely usable for that. They say 1.5mm deep, but, well, I think that’s optimistic for 20 watts. They do have bigger models up to 100 Watts’s and that’s expensive. They also have other lenses that will give up to about 11 x 11 working area, but then resolution goes down in proportion. That might not matter.

I don't have any merch for sale at the moment. My wife makes hats like these to donate to cancer patients (the.hat.project on Instagram) and she made me a couple to cover my welding helmet hair on videos. I may offer something like it in the future, though.

Thank you sir! I love your channel and due to it I’ve learned so much about welding that I use on regular basis. Thanks again and keep up the good education and tips

I thought it worked really well for the price, though they still aren't cheap. When I was working in a factory setting, the marking machines that they used cost close to six figures to do the same thing, though, they were also higher wattage, fully enclosed, automated units.

@@TimWelds I'd say it's a good value for everything you get. Definitely an impressive machine.