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Thanks. Looking at their employee roster, it appears that the namesake of SAC now works there!

I was able to obtain this circa 1985 wide-belt sander at a very good price, but the optical sensor for centering the belt is not working correctly. We can probably figure that problem out, but in...

Also, does anyone know the expanded beam size used on these machines? I guess I could just measure all of the optics and do something a little less. Just thought I would check.

I have found a source of numerous Coherent C70A lasers which should be adaptable to the Epilog and will probably purchase a few. If anyone else is in the same boat and has purchased one of these...

Interesting.

The thing that is silly is that these particular lasers are not some military or other secret technology that is not otherwise publicly available - these are lasers the rest of us...

Yes - I will also need the beam combiner so I can put a spotting laser on it too. Synrad at least lists these optional parts on their website:

http://www.synrad.com/diodepointer/index.htm

I figured you weren't selling it. I had already spoken to that Ebay seller - they don't know much about that "350W" laser, but from the specs I can tell is is likely a ~35W model. It might still be a...

I apologize - I'd assumed that the unnecessary destruction of perfectly functional lasers would be universally considered as wasteful. I'm not try to make any political statement here one way or...

Thanks for the reply. To be very clear to everyone, the sellers are in the govt. surplus business and were very upfront about the lack of laser and gave me plenty of details about why these end up...

I hear you. We will not be using this laser for much production work so we are a little more willing to play around with it. I pulled the mainboard last night and also examined some of the firmware...

I hear your point on the Chinese laser tubes being on the long side - I really do want a solution that fits inside the unit (other than a chiller if needed). I'm still not following why a laser...

I do reverse-engineer hardware / firmware for a living, and bought all of the CNC equipment in our shop (waterjet, VMC, CNC press brake, etc.) in non-working condition and got them up and going, but...

I'm missing why you would need to replace anything but the laser, power supply, and laser control interfacing? Why would I need to change the stepper motors or other aspects of the table drive system?

I'm new to these forums so I can't post to the classifieds yet. I will do that soon, hopefully.

Absolutely nothing was wrong with the laser before destruction. Your Govt. dollars + bureaucracy at work. They are not allowed to release certain items to the surplus channel with "hazardous...

Yes - I have been looking. The problem is that most people just go ahead and have any broken ones repaired due to the inherent value of the cores.

Because the machine cost a little over $3k and is in good condition otherwise. The real question now is can we get it up and running for $5k total or $10k total.

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I recently purchased a 2007 75W Epilog Helix 24x18 machine that has had the laser removed due to governmental requirements to dispose of "hazardous materials" . According to Epilog, I can...