Laser engraving sterling silver

[matthew knott]

Engraves into it, i give it a good polish on a wheel, the more repeats the deeper its goes, your electrox should do great job.
Matt

[Joe Hillmann]

Do you have any suggestions for gold? I always do it with the hans because I know what settings to use but have no idea how to transfer those settings to the electorx

[matthew knott]

Same as the silver, you cant really just mark gold and silver, it always engraves a bit. With the 100mm lens the electrox should fly into gold, again focus is critical, its all or nothing, the gold will refect 100% of the beam till you get the focus just right then it will start screaming as it eats into the metal. Dont forget to get some optisheild, di water is corrosive (beleive it or not) and it can eat away at the copper inside your diodes, just a capfull is all you need. You might have diodes that are gold plated inside in which case you can get by without it, but theres no way to tell and optisheild will only be a positive for your water system.

[Joe Hillmann]

Never heard of optishield. Is it just a conditioner added to the water? Where do I get it from. I am hoping since Troy (the sales rep) never told me I needed it that I don't need it.

[matthew knott]

Troy Simon ?? You can get it from electrox or here http://www.optishield.net/home.php it does depend on the diodes but i add it to all our diode pumped lasers, you wont need it for the hans

[Joe Hillmann]

Yeah, Troy Simon. I will look into getting some.

[matthew knott]

not sure what the shipping regs are, we had to buy a litter of the stuff we have used about 1% if that, i could post you some but it would come from the uk, ask Troy if he has any, you need a drop!