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Pretty neat, looks like it would let you teach in a regular classroom, and would cut down on materials costs by a huge amount.

Would be cool to see what a tig teaching system would look like

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>Would be cool to see what a tig teaching system would look like

The TIG setup: https://youtu.be/xCbmFFPSF7o?t=77

Ok this changed my mind about this tech. Tig welding really takes thousands of hours to learn, you do get limited by how much material you can burn through

Oooo... That'd be fun. I could see there being a bit more benefits with a tig system like this, insofar as being able to spend more time on the technique and getting feedback from the system on your timing and consistency.

Materials costs? Honestly? It would take decades, what kind of materials do you think starting welders are practicing on? Grade2 titanium?

i mean, even steel isn't _that_ cheap. not to mention Al.

I'm skeptical of the product myself but there's a lot of materials/equipment for welding: grinders, PPE, physical space to do stuff, cutoff saws (I want an Evolution cold cut saw but it's not worth the price for me right now), consumables, gasses etc.

Edit: but yeah all those are likely less than the "affordable" MSRP of 3150 clams - i've always been curious who Miller's target clients are, in my experience they have great tech and products but are super expensive. YesWelder is a better alternative in my opinion fwiw

Schools already have the equipment, scrap steel isn't expensive and most trade schools with metal shops have a bunch lying around. Sure blades and grinding wheels need to be changed out sometimes but for an established program this product seems rather silly to me. The student gets the absolute minimal exposure with basically no real practice

Anyone practicing on aluminum has already been welding for a while so again this product would be useless for them. I don't think any reasonable program would start out new students on aluminum

I agree and am still trying to determine the target use case here. Maybe Miller is so flush they developed it and don’t have much to lose, if people buy into the ecosystem good for Miller.

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