Our second attempt at homebrew stir welding.
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First attempt is here: http://youtu.be/L4c5WaYCt8A
Technical discussion with better signal to noise ratio:
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By AvvE

18 thoughts on “Friction stir welding on a bridgeport mill”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Imran Imran says:

    What happened to the spindle runout and spindle bearings after the operation ?

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars brakejet says:

    That first attempt is the epitome of how I think my experience will go in anything; Possible in theory, just not by me

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Antonio Renteria says:

    I raised my eyebrow thinking it said hebrew friction welding

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dith Perlay says:

    What a mess

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars andrew schuurink says:

    thumbs up from rotterdam cheers

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Roll Bot says:

    try this again but zip cut the ceramic of a spark plug in half, weld it to a lathe tool holder and go to town with that piece on a hunk of steel tube!

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Yee Thirty says:

    How am I watching this on Canada day 6 years later… weird

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Can and End Making says:

    Cungsten Targide,

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sam c says:

    The faster the better

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Paul G says:

    sure it welds two piece together with 0.001 % of the strength of a standard weld from a 20lb 200$ MIG welder… but it only takes a 20 ton vice and a 1000$ milling machine !

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chimes says:

    You my friends are going to glad you tuned into this!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Zackariah combs says:

    Y did u not just use a file? Instead of a drill

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars last Koresh says:

    So would you call this science friction?

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dom Aves says:

    "Butt welding"

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alex Turner says:

    so is he achieving melt trough with friction stir welding??? hmmm

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Brandon Kent says:

    "philip pateks" reeeeeeeeeeee

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars I might be a racist says:

    i felt a great deal of discomfort watching the camera rattle. I felt like i needed my own bunker, like the one the nuclear scientists hide for cover in

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars OEAH says:

    Have you tried heating up the thing-magig before frection wielding?

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