Glowforge release

[Doug Griffith]

That's a great way to make your optics covered in debris quickly. Sealed or not sealed, there has to be something that it's going to gunk up quickly. You can see how it blows the smoke forward, then the smoke comes up and heads back. That's going to be a problem.

I agree. If this is the case, it probably stems from esthetics and not experience.

[Bert Kemp]

got it thanx for the explanation

Epilogs, at least my Mini, do not use cones for air assist. They use tubes that are off to the side of the beam and blow air at an angle across the beam. Epilogs position the tube so it blows from front to back. the path of smoke blowing backwards is clearly visible. Position the tube so it blows from back to front and it would look like what we see in the video.

[John Lifer]

And from what I understand, Epilog users that do a lot of wood, clean their lens VERY often. A lot of them Daily.

[Kev Williams]

My LS900 sucks smoke out so well I tend to forget all about cleaning the lens and mirrors. Remembered yesterday that it's been awhile. Pulled the lens, almost perfectly clean. The top mirror had a hint of haze, the side mirror on this thing never gets dirty...

The GCC 'appears' to have a good exhaust system but the poorly designed exhaust port that's supposed to distribute negative airflow evenly across 38" of table, doesn't. It withdraws smoke in the cabinet rather quickly, but not before the smoke turbulates EVERYWHERE inside the cabinet first. Every day I have to clean the lens and 3 mirrors, because they're filthy after engraving a sq. ft's worth of Rowmark. The smoke from Cermark is almost as bad. The BIL and me are- when time permits- going to pull the back door off the cabinet, replace it with a piece of cardboard with a 4" hole and just let the unobstructed vent pipe suck the smoke out. It WILL work 1000% better

The Triumph is so huge inside, and while air will pass plenty easily thru a honeycomb table, the table itself prevents any common airflow path from occurring, so the smoke just drifts around mostly aimlessly until it finally does find what little moving air there is. A bigger blower might help both machine, but a blower bigger enough to actually work well in the Triumph I'd have to steal from the car wash

The GF in that video REALLY needs more exhaust power that is obviously being used...

[Glen Monaghan]

I spent 8 hours cutting 1/8 BB ply a week ago and had to clean the lens four times. Yesterday, I again did an 8 hour stint cutting ply and only had to clean the lens once (well, twice, because I cleaned it the second time when I finished cutting, just to be sure it was alright). Some batches of BB are horribly smoky and resinous (brownish stains left on the wood) and some very little smoke and resin. Wish I knew how to tell the difference before purchasing...

[Bert Kemp]

I get little if any smoke when cutting Baltic Birch its all sucked out from underneath. If I see any smoke I know I'm not cutting all the way thru and make the necessary adjustments. When I raster its from bottom to top, most the smoke is drawn away from the lens.

[Dave Sheldrake]

seems a few GF's were delivered last week...sadly 80% arrived either non working or plain busted. (glass tubes in the mail don't work well)

Looking at the spreadsheet in the GF group I help run of 398 people who are promised a machine last month and who responded, 29 have been delivered (8 of them faulty)

[Jacob John]

seems a few GF's were delivered last week...sadly 80% arrived either non working or plain busted. (glass tubes in the mail don't work well)

Looking at the spreadsheet in the GF group I help run of 398 people who are promised a machine last month and who responded, 29 have been delivered (8 of them faulty)

That's not really going to help with their image, even if they fix it quickly.

[Michael Henriksen]

....Looking at the spreadsheet in the GF group I help run .....

Surprised to read this - I though you didn't want to be associated with the GF in any way.

I still have my doubts GF will be around for much longer. It can't survive on hype in the long run.

[Matt McCoy]

seems a few GF's were delivered last week...sadly 80% arrived either non working or plain busted. (glass tubes in the mail don't work well)

Looking at the spreadsheet in the GF group I help run of 398 people who are promised a machine last month and who responded, 29 have been delivered (8 of them faulty)

How did you get 80%?

[John Lifer]

Dont know about his math but I was a video of one running, and the next vid was a faulty machine. Oops. I bet they don't like those being posted. They are delivering some. I know they touted their packaging, but there are a lot of gorillas working for the shipping companies! Ive seen some packages that I truly wondered how they damaged them as bad as they do!
I cast my own bullets for some of my guns and purchase lead mainly reclaimed from ranges and from wheel weights. Yes, there is a good market for clean lead. You can ship priority mail up to 70 pounds in medium flat rate box. 65 pounds of lead fits perfectly. But you'd better tape up and double box it or it would make it!

[Lee DeRaud]

Dont know about his math but I was a video of one running, and the next vid was a faulty machine. Oops. I bet they don't like those being posted.

Someone with a truly evil mind would have inserted a fine-print clause into the end-user agreement stating that posting adverse publicity of the GF would void the warranty.

[Scott Shepherd]

How did you get 80%?

Probably same logic that determined this was a 3D laser printer

[Bert Kemp]

That's not really going to help with their image, even if they fix it quickly.

idn't know their image was anything but bad
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[Doug Fisher]

>>You can ship priority mail up to 70 pounds in medium flat rate box. 65 pounds of lead fits perfectly.<<

Ha! Now THAT is evil on your part!