Rowmark Lasermax

[Edsel Emery]

I'll have to try the window cleaner trick. I've been wiping my items with cheap dish soap before lasering...then washing them.

[Mike Null]

Hey Ed,

Welcome to SMC.

Ed is a soon to be retired teacher/coach and all round fine fellow. He does some interesting jobs which I hope he'll share with us.

[Chris Hanson]

My lasermax arrived in the mail yesterday and I hope to give it a try in the next day or so. Thanks all for the suggestions.

Chris

[Joe Pelonio]

Keith's eraser trick is great for small stuff, but I am working on a 100 piece job, with an arch shape. Each piece is roughly 6" x 14", so the eraser on a pencil is slooooow and tedious. I discovered by thinking about the eraser what I might substitute that would work on big things and tried a foam rubber sanding block. Works great, and conforms to the shape of the edges.

[Keith Outten]

Joe,

Thats interesting...is the block consumed like an eraser when you use it?
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[Edsel Emery]

Well, thank you Mike! And thanks for the welcome.

[Joe Pelonio]

Joe,

Thats interesting...is the block consumed like an eraser when you use it?
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No, it can be re-used over and over. It's like using sandpaper but with a light once-over just removes the stickyness, without making dust as sandpaper would. I imagine that if it eventually clogged up it could be washed out.

[Tom Cole]

Another thing to consider when doing red or blue over white is to laser and then remove most of the residue with 2 or three pieces of tape (similar to removing white lint from your black suit). I then wash them with dish washing soap and COLD water to remove most of the residue that does not get "taped" off. I have also had some luck blowing the dust off with my high pressure compressor (at 60PSI).

tom

[Pete Simmons]

Joe - Where do you get

favorite being Sprayway


and is that a typo? Is it really SprayAway?


Looked in a few stores and Walmart no luck.


I have some white/red lasermax to do.

[Joe Pelonio]

Joe - Where do you get

favorite being Sprayway


and is that a typo? Is it really SprayAway?


Looked in a few stores and Walmart no luck.


I have some white/red lasermax to do.

I get it at Costco, you have to buy 4 if I recall. It's SprayWay, no a in between. I saw it also at Ace Hardware.

[Dee Gallo]

Pete- I get SprayWay at BJs or Sam's Club. You buy it in a 3-pack.

-dee

[Pete Simmons]

Thanks everyone - I picked up some sprayway at Ace.

Will try it on red / white lasermax soon.

May even clean a window with it!

[Scott Challoner]

Has anybody ever tried running large runs of plastic through a dishwasher or some other type of batch washer? We used a standard dishwasher for PCB cleaning at my last place of employment. Of course it wasn't also used to clean the dinner plates. You can also get small ultrasonic cleaners at HF.

[Pete Simmons]

Sprayway from Ace.


Used on Red LaserMax over White.


Worked great!


Thanks