Chinese laser purchase/Shenui/Laserworks tips and tricks thread

[Andrei Georgescu]

I must try that tomorrow. It might be a stupid question but will the focal distance change if I turn the lens over?

[Andrei Georgescu]

It's not working for me. I get horizontal lines on the engraved surface.

[Bryan Puls]

John.....what are you referring to when you say "x-slop"? I just posted a thread inquiring about issues with dots outside the cutting area and distorted edges. It seems to be an issue the smaller the image is. Also, you mentioned 400 mm/sec or lower for raster. I have a Hurricane laser, Ivan 80W. Is this seriously all I can expect for speed on this laser and still get a quality engraving? My post/thread showed images of my problem and that was occurring at 200 mm/sec. Any thoughts, ideas, comments??? Thanks!

[Julian Ashcroft]

Has anyone tried Laserworks V8 and know what the differences are between that and V6? If it's an improvement, is it worth getting? I don't know however I would go about obtaining a copy if it was.

[Andrei Georgescu]

Does anyone know the new e-mail address of Robert Wang? I want to place another order but they keep using different e-mails.

[John Noell]

Having retired and walked away from my business and my Epilog, I want a replacement toy to make things (esp. wood inlays). Will a Shenhui G460 work for this level of detail? It needs to engrave away the parts around the inlay and then engrave out where the inlay goes. The two parts are forced together and glued, in a press (Then sand away the backing of the inlay to reveal the pattern. This technique came from a post here at the Creek.) Another Epilog would be nice but I can get three 80 watt Shenhuis delivered to my door here in Fiji for the base cost of an Epilog Zing 16 at 40 watts (much less anything nicer).
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[Rich Harman]

Will a Shenhui G460 work for this level of detail?

This is a test/comparison I did when I first got my Shenhui, using 3mm MDF.

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[Jacob Davalos]

it will achieve the same level of detail, it will just do it a bit slower.

[Jacob Davalos]

I have found that when using the chuck type rotary (irregular) when i change the step settings, the radius of the object I am about to engrave is the exact number that will work. No more "guessing". Get some calipers, measure the diameter of the object and divide by half. If using a shot glass for example without a constant diameter, take an average reading of the area you would be engraving and divide by half to get radius.

I own a gweike using RDWork 8.0.25. Far superior to versins of RDCAM. No more "glove" to drag around image, it has CURSOR BARS. Can be downloaded here: http://en.rd-acs.com/down.aspx

[David Somers]

Good morning everyone!

A fair number of you have suggested working with Blanca in sales at Shenhui. The reason given was that orders placed through her seemed to be more closely followed and checked before shipping, better quality control in other words. And she also helped more if there were problems with the order once it arrived.

In helping another person I found out that Blanca is no longer working with Shenhui. She is now working for Liaocheng Ray Fine Technology Co.,ltd.

Here is all her contact information. I hope this is helpful. Folks here did seem to like working with her. You don't often see Chinese laser sales reps mentioned by name unless there is a problem so the fact that she was recommended so much seemed significant.

I should add I have no clue about the quality of Liaocheng Ray Fine Technology lasers and their service reputation. For what it is worth, Blanca says they are even better machines than Shenhui. Not that she is biased, being their new employee and all. <grin> She also mentioned she has similar access and influence on the manufacturing floor as she had at Shenhui so she feels she can provide a similar level of service.

Blanca Yan
Mobile: +86-15806808779
Email:yanblanca@yahoo.com
MSN:lasercnc@outlook.com
Skype: blanca610616
Machine video link:
http://u.youku.com/user_show/uid_blancayan


Dave

[John Noell]

Rich, that looks pretty good. Good enough that I just wired the $$ to Shenhui for an G460 with 80 watt RECI, spare lens, mirror, and belt, with upgrade to CW5200 chiller. Total with frieght to Fiji was $3329. So far, dealing with John Wang there has been very easy. (He was trained by Blanca.)

I liked my Epilog but it went thru too many tubes (despite regulated voltage and 24/7 air con for constant temp). And while I got some good support, I also had some really bad (and unecessarily expensive) and rude support. (So much so a dealer tried to help and got nowhere.) Once I have this machine I'll update.

[Rodne Gold]

The real key man there is Yarde Feng , he also left them to work for another laser co , he was R&D and support etc - I would trust any machine he has a hand on/in
you can reach him on skype . Yarde Feng

[Ross minetti]

HI all, I am so happy to have found this forum . I have purchased a chinese 100w laser engraver cutter that is currently sitting in Shanghai china and will be on a slow boat from china on Monday to Brisbane Australia. This is the one I have purchased. http://keyland.en.alibaba.com/produc...low_price.html. I got the 1060 which has bed of 1000mm * 600mm. I also got the rotary attachment for it as well. Cant wait get it here. I have a very steep learning curve ahead of me lol. The reason I bought a bigger machine is that my wife has her own wedding and events hire business. and we will be engraving and cutting all sorts of stuff for that plus the millions of ideas I have in my head to make it pay for itself. I have looked at other online forums but have not seen the amount of information that flows thru here on other forums. I have enjoyed reading all the forums here and the helpful answers as well. let me know if you want pics of it when it arrives here re unboxing. Oh yeah I am planning on using CorelDraw for the laser. Any suggestions as to what version is best all round would be helpful . Thank you in advance Ross.

[David Somers]

Congratulations Ross! Pretty exciting!!!

A question for you. Have you used any of the vector drawing programs out there? In other words, do you already have experience with Illustrator or Sketchup or a version of Corel, or any other vector drawing package?

Dave
PS...when you get a chance, you might put your laser model and any other fun toys you have i your signature, and also add your home city and country, or just the country if you want to your location. That helps folks when you post questions.

Dave

[Ross minetti]

Dave in a word NO lol. I have someone who is an expert in CorelDraw willing to teach me as long as I let him use my laser haha.