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Thanks so much Gerry that is just what I was looking for and its not too much more it seems. I think I can get away with a thinner sheet what thickness do you recommend I mean would 1/4" stay nice...

Here is the listing I was thinking of it does specifically say its flat aluminum tooling plate. Just imagining this would have to be flatter than mounting the rails to the bottom of my k40 laser....

I have never ordered any parts to be CNC made for me so I don't know where to start or what to expect. I just need a build plate for a co2 laser engraver. some 6061 1/4-1/2" thick and 24-30 x 18" or...

I am in the middle of doing this right now. I just got a k40 laser delivered today I am taking the 40w tube out and putting it in my GCC laser machine. Should be as simple as hooking up the pwm to...

Here are some of the options I came up with after not being impressed with the light object mounts they sell for 32 bucks. I am emailed them to RMA them yesterday yet to hear back....

I saw a few install instructions that all said the water outlet is supposed to be up. This is a generic 40W tube in a k40 laser. What do you guys do as procedure. Right now the electrodes are almost...

The GCC laser is great~! it lasted 12 years with no problems. But I am in fear the mobo may go out at anytime and you cant get new ones.

So I can fix the GCC with a china tube but if the mobo...

Since the thread is called Crazy Plans ill take that as a compliment.

I think this is just a move really to get us a laser up and going at the second shop until I can build the 3rd one and then resell the synrad tube and control board for the GCC. I know a few people...

Well George here is my logic for it all. Everyones GCC laser control board goes bad sooner or later mine is like 12 years old since i bought the laser. They cost 1500$ of you can find one and i had a...

I bought a k40 off ebay to take the tube and psu and try to make it work on my GCC mercury laser as the RF tube needs refilled. I got it new in 2003 and it worked for about 10 years till it was low....

I have a new oscilloscope I am going to hook up tonight but I still believe as long as its sending a signal within the frequency recommended by the power supply people (20kz) from memory i Think it...

This has all been discussed thousands of times for over ten years now. PC water cooling is a huge business with millions of users worldwide. Anything and I mean anything you can imagine has been done...

My mercury has been down for almost 2 years now and I am in the middle of making my own laser so I have a smoothieboard motion controller. I tried looking at the several options to get the old laser...

Hello I think I am the one that talked to you on facebook and suggested coming here. How did this end up? I can almost swear it happened to me years ago and I had to get new eeprom chips because...

I think you can pretty much do everything you need to do on a laser design wise with photoshop cs 1 or 2. I would buy a copy of those you are done. Corel Draw is much easier to use than illustrator...

I knew it would be harder but I think its doable at least on a commercial level and I bet they do it like that somewhere already. With servos and accurate encoders.

If you had to go old school you...

I used to own the signwarehouse pinnacle mercury rotary engraver, but never plugged it in and sold it with our business for someone else to try. I see how everyone engraves left to right and the...

Here is the XY table version and a version that has a x gantry with flying optics consisting of only one mirror and lens above a table that moves in the y direction.

My idea is to use the C-Beam...

Inkscape is getting more popular and I have everything working good except when I import any file type I save from corel X5 into Inkscape. I am not sure if its on the corel end or the Inkscape end...

Have you ever thought of installing some infrared and temp sensors to an alarm or laser shutoff? You could probably wire it into the door open circuit Got to put that Pi to some good use =)

That is pretty neat I was looking into getting a Pi and using octoprint for my new laser. Looks like I could do something like this if I go that route.

My laser tube is probably in need of refill on the mercury so I am not using it.

Well all day right now for me is 2-3 hours on a good day. I am lucky I have a high profit to low time items. Anyway I plan on using it as a stepping stone until I get rich and have my own clean air...

I pretty much found out its just like a neon sign power supply and it has an auto trigger voltage. Found it on Sams laser FAQ and a few other places. I just wanted to be able to test a laser when I...