Household uses for laser?

[Dan Hintz]

If you get bored, Dee, feel free to make me a few bunches and send my way...

[Frank Corker]

I'm a firm lover of candy floss two so feel free to send to me as well

[Joe Pelonio]

I don't know anyone else that has their own cotton candy machine, enjoy!

(I can just see the crowds of kids hanging around your front yard this summer when you use it with the window open and they smell it!)

[Mike Null]

Dee
You have a cotton candy machine?????

That really one-ups my pop corn popper.

[Hilton Lister]

How about bachelor buttons? My expanding waistline puts some pressure on the top button of my jeans resulting in loss or breakage of said item. Solution, cut 2 x 15-20mm 3mm acrylic discs with two small slots in the middle.
Take a small plastic cable tie and thread from top through top disc down through fabric then bottom disc and back up through discs and fabric. Zip through other end of cable. Trim off excess and there you go. Pants securely fastened once more!

[Bruce Boone]

I just saw a very cool item on Etsy. They were baby teethers in the shape of a remote control or a smart phone, made in maple and waxed with beeswax. Very well done and a great use for a laser.

[Tim Walters]

Hi All,

The gasket for my blender died. I had some food-grade silicone around, so I measured the old gasket and cut a new one.
My wife bought a shelf "assembly" for the bathroom that attached to the wall at 4 places. Completely out-of-square.
I measured the location of the mounting points, programmed them into Corel, and cut small holes in a piece of poster-board to make myself a template for drilling. Went up without a hitch!

Tim

[James Stokes]

I did not like the spray pattern in my shower head, so I cut a new diffuser screen to make a much finer spray pattern also I have cut out some cookie patterns for baking and other assorted things.

[Bill Cunningham]

Used the laser to cut new gaskets for the outdrives on the boat..Then sold the boat.. How do you spell relief?
N.O.B.O.A.T

[Mike Null]

The first and about the only household thing I made was actually very effective and useful. I cut two pieces of 1/16" engraver's plastic into a semi-circle and taped them back to back on the sliding screen door to the deck. I remounted the inside and outside handles over them and secured them to the screen with double sided tape. They worked very well for years--particularly with my little granddaughter.

[Rodne Gold]

Just used mine to make an air intake "umbrella " for my 454 El Camino , I use a K&N triangular air cleaner that sticks out the bonnet. I had to destroy my carport for various reasons and now the car sits in the rain , unfortunately water gets into the engine bay thru the gap in the bonnet where the aircleaner sticks out , I just used 3mm Acrylic to make an oversized lid that sits atop the chrome air cleaner cover and overhangs the gap for when the car sits idle.
Getting water into the engine bay is not really an issue , what is , is the fact the water mars the finish on the highly polished aluminium intake manifold and valve covers by leaving whiteish marks which need to be polished out. Silly use for a laser as I could just put a garbage bag atop the bonnet (hood in Yanklish) and weight it down...

[john banks]

Sign for the house. There was a bit of kitchen worktop there before to stop the birds getting in. Not sure I'll cover the screw heads, you can hardly see them from the ground.


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[Dee Gallo]

Gorgeous building, John. Do you really have horses?

Oh, nice sign too! hahaha

[john banks]

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Last owner provided livery and taught equestrian studies, but we have converted some of the stables into workshop and the classroom into an office for the laser business, and the other stables are presently used for storage, with the land rented out to a farmer. We are not horsey, wondered about continuing the livery but the insurance, the hassle and disruption didn't seem worth it. We were wondering about extending the stables to garages but need to be careful in design so anyone in future could still use for horses.

A lot of these 19th century stone farm steadings around a courtyard are converted into lots of small houses, we were looking out for years for one where we could get the whole thing but not completely derelict and not so big that the only thing would be to convert to lots of houses attached together.

We have a cow shed to convert to a lounge this year, may see if we can laser some small details into the wood here and there. Picture attached, one of my coworkers at Cobb Tuning in Texas thought it looked older than the United States

[Rodne Gold]

I love the look of your place , that "barn" or whatever it is that you posted pics of can be really nicely "renovated".
I think garage/workshop and living/office space is a far better use of the facilty , tons of potential buyers in the future and a good living environment for you in the present. Not sure how many "hoss" buyers there are out there , but it really limits your scope in how you want to convert the space if you have that in mind.