Steve Busey
10-15-2012, 6:20 PM
For those that have had a tube get old & decrepit on them, what was the general pattern of it's demise?
I ask, because when I try a long raster job (~15-20 min) or a fairly simple vector job, it starts off fine, but shortly into the job everything just fades out.
After doing some other small jobs yesterday, I tried to create a jig out of a piece of 1/8" acrylic I had cut before. I tried to cut 10 slots to hold standard #2 pencils. Yesterday, on the 1/8" settings, it would not cut all the way through. Powered down overnight. Today, I started it up, and choose the the 1/4" setting. Managed to cut out the first slot, but on the second, it barely cut through one edge of the rectangle.
Epilog says: focus, align, level. Just did that recently, and just run hobbyist volume of projects through it. But am guessing if I go back in a few hours and try the second slot again, it will do the one and then quit.
Mine's a 2008 laser, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's dying - just curious on how your tubes have died...
I ask, because when I try a long raster job (~15-20 min) or a fairly simple vector job, it starts off fine, but shortly into the job everything just fades out.
After doing some other small jobs yesterday, I tried to create a jig out of a piece of 1/8" acrylic I had cut before. I tried to cut 10 slots to hold standard #2 pencils. Yesterday, on the 1/8" settings, it would not cut all the way through. Powered down overnight. Today, I started it up, and choose the the 1/4" setting. Managed to cut out the first slot, but on the second, it barely cut through one edge of the rectangle.
Epilog says: focus, align, level. Just did that recently, and just run hobbyist volume of projects through it. But am guessing if I go back in a few hours and try the second slot again, it will do the one and then quit.
Mine's a 2008 laser, so it wouldn't surprise me if it's dying - just curious on how your tubes have died...