A team of welders from Mazda. Motor Corporation in Japan has shown amazing skills in welding dice as small as 1 millimeter.
This pH๏τo of a small metal dice on the tip of his finger has gone viral on Japanese social media. It is a work of welding 6 metal dice together to form a miniature dice, which made netizens very impressed with this work.
The pH๏τo has garnered a lot of attention on Japanese Twitter, with up to 30,000 likes and thousands of comments. Most people can’t believe that it is possible to weld the faces of a dice as small as 1 millimeter, but they praise the craftsman for the technique and patience that made this dice possible.
Later, it was revealed that the work of this miniature dice belonged to the Mazda team. Motor Corporation, which starts by creating every page of the dice into the shape of letters. T (as shown in the picture below)
The 0.05 millimeter-thick stainless steel sheet is then bent into a cube shape using the smallest tweezers, and then the dice are gently welded at all angles with great precision.
In fact, Mazda’s team of welders started welding metal dice four years ago, first making a 10-centimeter dice, then gradually decreasing in size until recently, it was only 1 millimeter wide.
“As with surgery, we are welding metal using tweezers to hold the dice while looking through the monitor. Breathing makes your hands move, so the best way to do this is to hold your breath while working,” says a welder from the project.
And with this result, this metal dice may be the smallest dice in the world.