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Hi Robert,

Thanks for the post, that's amazing. I've been looking a moving up from my DIY filter, and your post is exactly what I'm looking for. So does it use activated carbon you buy and poor...

Interesting idea Mayo. I think I won't be able to do exactly that since I work in relief mode, but there's something there for sure. And I for sure always engrave bottom up. I'd be curious to know...

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'll try some of them out. Appreciate it!

Yeah I get as close as possible. Depending on how the wood comes to me though there are variations, or I may end up with odd lot pieces here or there. So for the most part I do what you suggest, but...

Appreciate the advice. I do think that the perimeter box design method I suggested where it's just a box the same dimensions as my piece, minute per minute, is still faster than what you're...

I've been able to master most of what I need on my speedy 300, but job alignment is still something I find surprisingly slow for my purposes. I work almost exclusively with rectangular hardwood as a...

You treat it right though! But in a maker space where people just use it casually, most people mistreat them badly

Yeah Kev thats why I passed. It's too expensive for a hobby and too cheap for a business. It's a weird sort of in between. Crazy thing is most maker spaces I talked to saw their Epilog's destroyed...

Curious why I wouldn't be genuinely curious? I miss something?

Had a quick question about this. I find if I take my 1.5" lens 1/32 out of focus I can create a really nice darker engrave. If I do 1/16 I find it doesn't work. I haven't tried 1/8 yet. Do you guys...

So what ever happened with this thing in the end? They ever work out for people?

I've had so many problems trying to use the adobe products to engrave. I've had:

-weird issues with taking vector files from AI over to Inkscape (sizing issues)
-lots of interoperability issues...

That's quite interesting.

I discovered the Merv 13's end up being my biggest bottle neck because they clog fast. I tried protecting my carbon shelves with their own dedicated Merv 13's, and it was...

Just a heads up for anyone looking, it's Prime Day on Amazon. They have some pretty sweet deals for woodworking stuff and computer stuff, it's like their boxing day (I bought some sanding discs and...

Zeiss lens cleaner
Isopropyl Alcohol, 4-6%
Water, 94-96%

Is that really all that is? Can easily make that ourselves than. so 99% Isopropyl diluted to 4-6% of the solution? No problem.

Btw...

Hey Keith. In relief mode you only use shades of grey I believe. So I have to use something from RGB 0 to RGB 255. Or at least that's what I thought. I could alway try something else. I use relief...

Reading stuff like this makes my butt clench. I'm not nearly ready to run into problems like these ;)

Thanks for the great advice. And I suppose since all I do right now is really sappy hardwood, then the daily schedule makes sense for me.

Cool I think I'll do just that out of mdf.

Trotec support told me to do them daily. Bad advice? Same with mirrors.




Like a mix of all those things, or you mean you've used all of them at one point successfully? I'm totally up for...

Btw one other question while we're at it. Is there a spot on the bed that's more advantageous to place a piece to help the life of all the belts and motors?

Hi Gary,

This Bowie one is very typical for me. It's really essential that the unengraved border of the frame be as even as possible in on all sides. The challenge is once in a while a frame might...

Rather than start a few threads I thought I'd condense these into one.

1) Anyone ever get a phantom pause while engraving? Not a big deal, just found it weird. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it...

Out of curiosity what's considered cheap paper and cheap solution? Trotec sent me the big pink bottle after initially sending me the really cheap little white bottle. I also have their sheets that...

Well I did it, sort of. I'm now engraving with so little smoke and odour that I'm basically not worrying about it right now. With a lot of messaging help from Glen I was able to absolutely not fix my...