Unslinging the tool kit from his shoulder, the Tellarite opened it and reached inside, extracting a laser welder.

"I fused it together myself using a laser welder."

"I said I fused it with a laser welder."

A laser welder, not too dissimilar from this one," and he touched the one on his tool belt.

The sudden yanking caused the laser welder to be jerked from his fingers and spiral away.

I said softly to Slammer, "Bring up the laser welder."

Then he touched the laser welder to his skin at his temple, at the top of the gash.

And as he kept repeating this, slowly he drew the laser welder down the side of his face.

When he finished, the laser welder dropped from his numbed fingers.

Some men were working on her hull and there was the sudden red flare of a laser welder.