Flame Cutting: Welding Education

MeltView® APEX2 Camera

Flame cutting visualized with the MeltView® APEX2 camera

MeltView® cameras designed to image welding are suitable for a variety of bright metals processes, such as oxy fuel cutting, recorded with the MeltView® APEX2 camera by welding instructor Chris Champagne at Santa Teresa High School, New Mexico. The camera displays a clear, high resolution image before and during cutting. In this video, the bright molten metal stands out, and a reflection of the molten metal is visible after cutting begins, until the piece drops away. This video is made for instructional purposes. In manufacturing environments, customers mount the MeltView® camera to the long oxy fuel cutting torch to distance the operator from the torch end for healthy and safety reasons.

MeltView® APEX3

The APEX2 has been replaced by the MeltView® APEX3. The APEX3 offers the same qualities as its predecessor while adding a higher resolution with real time imaging. The APEX3 is offered in a welding education kit containing items needed to teach welding in a classroom setting and as the individual camera.

  • Micro TIG titanium weld captured with the MeltView® APEX2 welding camera

    Micro TIG titanium weld captured with the torch...

    Captured in this video is an experienced welder's second attempt with the torch-mounted APEX2 camera. See the illustrations on the Welding Education and Training blog post for examples of how...

    Micro TIG titanium weld captured with the torch...

    Captured in this video is an experienced welder's second attempt with the torch-mounted APEX2 camera. See the illustrations on the Welding Education and Training blog post for examples of how...

  • GMAW with the MeltView® APEX2 weld monitoring camera

    MeltView APEX2 camera GMAW compilation

    Video montage of MeltView® APEX2 footage of short-circuit GMAW on carbon steel A588 using Spoolarc 86 .035 hardwire with a C10 gas mixture. The APEX2 camera is mounted to the...

    MeltView APEX2 camera GMAW compilation

    Video montage of MeltView® APEX2 footage of short-circuit GMAW on carbon steel A588 using Spoolarc 86 .035 hardwire with a C10 gas mixture. The APEX2 camera is mounted to the...

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