Seemed to be very interesting tech and equipment however they still were trying to prove the strength before they sent it 30,000ft down into subsea wells
Seems to me to be a very long winded and expensive way of making a part which could be made better and cheaper using any number of other methods! Plus the metallic consistency of a built up weld is always suspect. Why not machine form a peice of strip steel and do one quick short weld? the film also looked speeded up in order to make it more impressive, so not quick, not cheap, and of questionable mettalurgical integrity? No thanks. Like most 3d printing applications, the emperor has no clothes! It has a niche market, but so far that is all.
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Interesting process here using lasers for a fillet weld and it the weld blasts through the 10mm steel onto both sides of fillet , Exceptional penetration