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  1. 04-01-2019, 02:50 AM #1
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    Default Glass and metal have been welded together using a laser.

    https://phys.org/news/2019-03-welding-breakthrough.html


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    Default Re: Glass and metal have been welded together using a laser.

    I have a 5500mW CNC laser. Im going to try and fume some glass, lay down some dark nail polish to kill the reflectivity , laser engrave that then take the nail polish off to see what it does to the fume.

    It might be a cool way to add some high resolution graphics to glass.
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    Default Re: Glass and metal have been welded together using a laser.

    Interesting, let us know


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