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I agree with Metal photo. A photographic emulsion coated on aluminum. Exposed and developed like photographic paper then boiled in a salt solution to form an anodized layer over the the surface. ...

Bill, The lasercut Corel plugin saves the job settings in the active folder so I save each corel file in it's own folder named with the job ID and date. When I want to re run a job I open the corel...

Gene, I occasionally show up on Shopbot and Vectric forums.
The Laser cut dialog box pops up in Corel when I am ready to send the file. I just assign cut or engrave to each color along with the...

I use the corel plugin for lasercut 5.3 it works great. I especially like the fact that I can design in inches and it automatically converts the file to metric that LaserCut wants to see.
My setup...

another US vendor of chinese galvo fiber lasers is Ray Scott of RabbitlaserUSA.

how about using a video camera to monitor the laser rather than risking your eyesight?

Not all Chinese lasers require an export to another stand alone program. I run my Rabbit laser right out of Corel X4. There is an add on that calls up a LaserCut 5.3 control panel where I can...

My 80W rabbit 1290 is almost 4 years old and it has worked perfectly until a month ago. After reading rabbitlaser usa FAQ and doing some troubleshooting, I replaced the tube and power supply and am...

Ray had me add a small amount of antifreeze to my chiller. The color is a faint yellow. It has been fine for the past 3+ years. I just went through my first tube change and the solution looks like...

I dislike one of a kind rush items. Someone shows up with a pen or a bat or a turned wood bowl. They want it instantly, there is only one piece and it can't be screwed up. I am much happier...

I have contacted all three of the major vendors over the past 4 years. One of them jacked the price up twice on successive calls. Another vendor never did give me a quote after seeing me at the...

This is a funny thread, some machine owners appear to be stressed out over engraving prices. The overhead of rent, employees and expensive machines must be weighing heavily on business owners.
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I would tell them $6 each and they have to do the transportation or pay for shipping. Also they need to provide a couple extra in case of engraving problems.

My rabbit laser that worked perfectly when installed developed an exhaust problem. I found that it had screens with quarter inch mesh holes in the exhaust connection and the blower box. After a few...

If you plan on engraving on anything but perfectly flat surfaces, you should look into getting a longer focal length lens and compensating for the power loss with a higher power laser.
I engrave...

I have experimented with painting steel then using the laser to ablate a pattern. The pattern can then be etched into the steel with ferric chloride or with salt water and a battery charger. Knife...

I can mark SS directly without any Cermark or moly spray. I don't make a practice of this because the reflected beam might cause damage to my optics. I learned not to do this when marking a curved...

When I taught my kids to drive we made a magnetic sign for the back of the car that said "Student Driver" People tended to back off and leave us room. Years later when one of the kids was visiting...

The semiconductor industry uses fume scrubbers to cut air pollution. These units use water a spray to capture smoke or deadly fumes. Perhaps a barrel and a pump with spray nozzles would be cheaper...

I run lasercut from Corel X4 this method works great and is explained on the RabbitlaserUSA site. I have found it is best to establish a separate folder for each job so the parameters are remembered...

It looks like the machine sees alll 3 lines of text. It hesitates like it wants to engrave then jumps to the next line. My guess is there is something wrong with the file like a scan gap setting...

I made a list of criteria important to my sign business. 1) cutting performance (power) most important ...... 2) table size ...... 3) price ..... 4) support .......5 ) engraving performance was...

I find it much easier to install the lasercut driver into Corel and cut directly. The instructions on how to do this is on Ray's website.

I know a person that reacted to the laser ablation products from drilling a few .001" holes in .001" kapton films for flex circuits. The UV laser system had a good exhaust and was located in a...

I have a 3 year old Rabbit that came with everything. exhaust, chiller, computer, compressor and ducting. It has worked without problems the entire time. Ray came out and set up the machine and...