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Naptha is a solvent for adhesives like labels and the paper backing. So if you have old acrylic where the paper doesn't want to come off easily, dab a naptha soaked rag on it and it will peel right...

I tried cutting Ebony for a friend last year, it just turned to charcoal. A client of ours that does guitar work said he's heard people use Vulcanized Fiberboard in place of ebony. Apparently once...

By the time the beam travels through the acrylic, if it reflects, it has to travel back through the acrylic again, there won't be anything of significance left. As others have said, it can be a...

Most paper will cut reasonably well but there are exceptions. Any paper with coatings designed to keep ink at the surface seems to result in a tacky surface that collects ash from cutting. Mohawk...

Thanks for the suggestion of the youtube video, it helped greatly! Luckily I watched it before I tried to adjust my wheels to be co-planar. I followed the steps he recommended and am getting good...

I wouldn't use a filter system unless you're doing metal marking or something else fairly clean. You want an exhaust fan sized appropriate to your laser. Something that looks like this should work...

Even if the mirrors are clean, are they good quality? On my old Epilog, I found they degraded over time losing their silvering. I put a block of acrylic in front of the last mirror and found it was...

My old Speedy 500 had a 5 pin connector that was "proprietary" though they provided one to me. It was meant to connect Trotec's exhaust fans that they don't sell in the US. Pins 1 and 2 will work to...

I have a nearly new Rikon 18" bandsaw that I've used for general cuts here and there, but I now want to tune it for optimal cutting, primarily for resawing. I watched a video and I've read online but...

If you engrave a filled square at 125dpi you will get gaps between the lines. Look at the edges of the box, do the lines line up vertically? Basically you're looking to see if the lines created...

I believe that is another method... perhaps the first one, but I think it can be done with one beam now. Here is where I read about it:

http://www.bathsheba.com/crystal/process/

My understanding is that you have to use a YAG or Fiber laser, and decent quality crystal glass. You focus such that the focal point is inside the glass and that's where it makes a mark. You work...

You should be able to get it very close, but perfect is probably not practical.

I don't have that laser, but typically you have a set of alignment guides that fit into holes in front of each...

Brent, do the parts you're cutting require the honeycomb to keep from falling through? We did some jobs that required cutting hundreds of sheets of 1/8" mdf and our metal slats looked like this...

There is Weldon 3 and Weldon 4... I forget which is which. Both are water thin, one is fast set, one is slow. The slow set uses pure acrylic solvent which I believe is not flammable and not...

Some people on the Epilog Laser Forum asked for pictures of my home made slat idea. I didn't have pictures but did a quick drawing. It shows an Epilog tray without the grid, the light blue...

Do you have problems with other equipment failing? A voltage regulator wouldn't hurt anything, but shouldn't be required unless you know your power to fluctuate.

I don't have any experience with...

Anodized does still reflect, but I think less so than other metals.

Air assist does provide that function in theory, but mostly if you have a coaxial air assist, meaning that the air and the...

What paper are you using? Some papers are really bad, while others are quite good. Mohawk Superfine paper is particularly prone to the sooting, as is Finch Fine Brite White 130#. I believe the bad...

I don't know about a change to correction, but my understanding of it was that it was a minimum power threshold. Whether 20 meant it could drop no more than 20% from the setting you are engraving at,...

I have Laserworks with my Vytek. It's definitely not the same as color coding/stroke weight.

I would prepare the cut as a filled vector shape in red or any color other than black. Prepare the...

It's of limited application, but if you create single stroke text, you can take the laser out of focus by an inch or two and vector the stroke. It will create a wide, v-shape cut into the material. ...

Are you measuring something you've cut or the table? I know on our Epilog, the rulers were not in alignment with the gantry. We used the laser pointer to adjust one ruler to be parallel to the...

I do have to say that it takes the credibility out of an award program if you have to buy your own trophy. I realize they cost money, but that's what entry fees are for.

We had an article published about us in our city newspaper and some year and a half later, we still get emails from companies wanting to produce a plaque of it for us. When they first called, I told...