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I can empathise with your situation. Having read Bill's site I have caused myself a lot of heartache over dust extraction going back and forwards for at least a couple of years.

I would like...

Depending what you have cut a 'jointer' or 'buzzer' (depending what part of the world you live in pick the right name) will work well but thats only for straight edges with enough length to work on...

It seems that she did not want to go through the primer and set up the speed/feed to go through the first layer of paint only, giving the desired effect.

Thanks guys, I too did a search the other day and nothing came up. I am in New Zealand so I am not sure how easy it would be to get it but at that price and the small number of keys I may do it may...

I need to make some custom keypad buttons with symbols on them that I cannot get off the shelf.

So, I would be starting off with ~12mm square (1/2") grey buttons which go on to a small...

Good luck with it Phil, I am extremely happy with my 1512 I got from them. Yes, the blower is reasonably loud but thats the same with all of them, things that move a lot of air usually have that...

Just to add. Yes I did get them to do door to door service. It saved me something like $600USD getting them to do it through their shipping agent rather than walk off the street to a broker for a...

Hi Phil, from memory it was $4700, then there were the costs of the accessories but you choose what you want and I thought the prices of accessories were fine for what you received.

It has...

Thanks Mike, I have spent many hours/nights using CAD :) For the gears I actually bought the gear generator that seems to be popular.

So its been around for a little while longer and all is going well. One of my boys took a set of gears in to the others preschool because he was playing with it in the car and they asked if I could...

Yes, thanks Dennis, as a newbie to lasers I think I will use one of those tricks, it's not one thats usable on my other machines so it's good to learn for this one.

No, never tried it but I have only had the laser for a week :)

Not sure how easy it would be to line it up accurately. I do that often on a mill, using my dial indicators for setup and getting...

Got the dial indicator out and got it reasonably good for pulses/distance.

Now I figure I can accurately find out how wide the laser is when cutting and offset for that.

I think I am a...

George, thanks for replying.

I may not have made myself clear. I am happy with rastering for engraving and vector cutting as separate things.

Right now there is one thing I need to...

Hi Mike, yes Melody is with G.Weike who I bought it from, I am sure she will do as you have asked.

I know Shenhui gets good wraps around here and I can only say good things about G.Weike as...

Actually, contrary to my previous post, there is some accumulative error. As I go to 100mm I loose 0.1mm on both sides. So, I will have to figure out the screen that had pulses for the motors. I...

Some interesting stuff happening, I dont know what it is.

I am definitely doing as you describe, I did it the first time and I just checked by doing it again and I get the same results.

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Hi Daniel, Is it the 'download CFG' button that I need to press? I have not wanted to because I am not sure if what is in the laser from the factory is the same as the settings in lasercut. I...

Hi Daniel, I did re download each time expecting that was the way to get the changes to the machine. No change seen though..

My wife just flooded my workshop by turning on a washing machine...

Thanks Daniel, I will check it out! PS, in XP print screen captures the desktop to the clipboard.

I have a setting 'inner to outer' which is ticked. If I do a 30mm square it is cut to 29.72x 27.79 on the X and Y.

With it unticked I get 29.72 square. This tells me that the setting did...

Thanks John, I will do that after I get past the playing around with it phase :)

I am posting a few more pictures of the machine for anyone interested. I have read about the machines coming...

So, it's been two days now. Not a lot done on the first day as I set it up. I was a bit lazy and I have not checked alignment on everything, I will do that soon but for now it's working well.

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Yes, it is big, very big! Mostly plan on cutting small parts from balsa in sheets that I can only get at 4"x35".

No, not really :) It is a little overkill for what I would most frequently...

Imported directly from China. This one was from G. Weike. I have only had it unboxed for a short time and not wired/plumbed it all up.

Its looking really good and I cant wait until tomorrow...