Arc welding in space?

[Tal Maru]

No atmosphere = no blindingly bright blue spark.
No bright ass blue spark = no eye strain for me.

[Ex-Mørtis]

Uh arc welding does work in space. Via heat or electrical discharge...it may not spark as much but there would assuredly be diffuse glow from heat convections. But I agree it wouldn't spark in the same way.

[MYAH]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Tal Maru:

No atmosphere = no blindingly bright blue spark.
No bright ♥♥♥ blue spark = no eye strain for me.

Have you tried lowering the brightness?

[Tal Maru]

You either need direct thermal contact or to use an electron gun / laser in order to weld in a vacum.

No atmosphere = no charge carrier = no visable arc.
Yes there would be a dull red/orage glow from heated metal but no blue arc.

All I want is to be able to weld with out wearing my sunglass's IRL.

No I have not changed the overall brightness because I do not want everything to be darker.
Dark enough with my modded skybox.

Mostly what I'm saying is tradational tools are not built to work in a 0g vacum enviroment.
Percussive drilling is just beyond stupid as you create lots of shrapenel and unneeded recoil.
Grinding just as stupid for the same reasons.

If you want this to be a "beliveable extrapolation of technolgy 60 years from today"
You seriously need to step up your game.
Using 50 year old tool technology is not gonna cut it.
This is as bad as planetside2 dressing up WW2 era tech and calling it sci-fi

[A Fat, Angry Serval]

I'd like to point out that the welder is likely actually an oxydized acytaline torch.

[Tal Maru]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από VestedGamr:

I'd like to point out that the welder is likely actually an oxydized acytaline torch.

Likley based on what?
The electric arcing and spark sounds that the welder makes?
Or the fact that on ship based welders there is clearly a spark gap.
Or because Acetylene and Oxygen are both extremly abunduant in outer space.

[dragonfirecustoms]

whatever kind of welder it is,, it leaves some ugly beads

[LtKillPuppy]

Or maybe the sparks just look cool and act as a clear indicator that you are making contact and are actually welding. :)

[Gimli]

Its all for the theatrical effects dude. get over it and complain about something important and game breaking.

[Dr Fraud]

It probably represents MIG welding. The handset suplies an Inert Gas to protect the weld, superfluous in a vacuum (no oxygen to exclude from the weld) but relevant to welding within an atmosphere. Even in a vacuum there would be some vapour produced by the molten metal hence there would be a medium for the arc to light up.

[dga8705]

Or it could be similar to mig welding but use a different gas, not to exclude oxygen, but to include a conductor if needed besides thetwo metals contacting.

[FoxHawk]

i do agree with the fact i seem to spontaneously get epilepsy when playing this game, especially when placing my miniguns close to the cockpit.

[Namdoolb]

Definitely looks like a Mig welder.

Although the bigger affront to reality is how you can somehow run a mig welder without a wire feed. Space or not, you need a wire feed.

:)

[freeskier93]

Arc welding REQUIRES an atmosphere. The arc created is plasma, aka ionized gas. Typical GMAW would work, however you'd be using the gas as a medium for ionization instead of shielding. The rate of gas diffusion in a vacuum is also going to be an issue, you'd need a lot of gas.

Cold welding might be a better alternative though in space.

[Illuminate Spy]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Tal Maru:

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από VestedGamr:

I'd like to point out that the welder is likely actually an oxydized acytaline torch.

Likley based on what?
The electric arcing and spark sounds that the welder makes?
Or the fact that on ship based welders there is clearly a spark gap.
Or because Acetylene and Oxygen are both extremly abunduant in outer space.

ahem, ist also knwon as a palsma cutter it works by xetarpolated intes heat and it requres a abesot suit t use ddue to uts heat and does not require a oxeganeted envroment

[Johari]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Tal Maru:

Likley based on what?
The electric arcing and spark sounds that the welder makes?
Or the fact that on ship based welders there is clearly a spark gap.
Or because Acetylene and Oxygen are both extremly abunduant in outer space.

ahem, ist also knwon as a palsma cutter it works by xetarpolated intes heat and it requres a abesot suit t use ddue to uts heat and does not require a oxeganeted envroment

Tihs posed gabe ne dyskeksia.