I'll be making my demands as soon as I get my shark nursery tank set up... erm, I mean, look for a Christmas card in the mail from me :D
Printable View
Congratulations! I am following this thread with interest since I foresee a Speedy 300 in my near future. This forum is the main contributing factor for this interest in trotec.
Dan! Check with your dealer! I think you get $10 off your next Speedy 500 with every referral! You are on a roll!! <grin>
Dave
LOL... Maybe I can afford my next one in 2020? ;-)
While I haven't begun writing anything down, I do intend to write up a fairly extensive review. Hopefully, this one will be a bit different, from an engineer's perspective and from someone who has owned other Western machines and Chinese machines. I'm keeping points in the back of my mind as I come across them.
I'm off for the next two+ weeks, so today is the day I get it up on the stand and start playing (assuming my tired arms/back can manage it).
Well, it's on legs/wheels and in the shop... at great expense to my back. You will want to read this portion of my review...
End of day 2 and no photos of finished products? Dan, you're slipping :)
Don't forget, if you need help, give me a call. Happy to help. I can probably sneak away one day after Christmas if you want a crash course. Just let me know.
Ungodly heavy, moving mine in cost me two cases of beer one for each of my friends :)
Are we gonna have to start recruiting for the Sawmillcreek Men's Soprano Choir after everyone gets all their new holiday toys in? I think the comparable Chinese lasers weigh in at even more don't they? Yeeks!!!!!
<grin>
Sorry, spent the day partially recovering (my back is killing me, and my upper arms are severely bruised... very black/blue), partially putting up more insulation in the basement in prep for a stud wall. I just started my two-week vacation, so in between insulation glue drying is (hopefully) laser time.
You'll be happy with the weight when you run that puppy at full speed, and it doesn't shake a bit from directional change. The 300's built like a tank!
One word of advice when you get the rotary: Don't hot-patch it. Found out the $$ way.... turn the power off before plugging rotary in. Enjoy your new toy!
The FedEx driver used a pallet jack to bring mine down a rather severe hill and into my basement. He actually brought it into the basement on the mule by himself (we had removed the sliding doors). I forced a $20 tip on him. My rep, a neighbor and myself finished the set up and I was up and running within two hours.
My guy's first language was not English (German, possibly? He didn't speak much, but the few partial words I did hear sounded German), so I wasn't going to push for anything complicated. Even so, the only paved area he could reasonably leave it was the driveway, so we stashed it under the carport. Getting it set up with only two people (SWMBO didn't do any heavy lifting, but she was still invaluable) and no lift was painful (in more ways than one), but I'm including all of this in the review.
Any driver who is friendly and doesn't just dump and run gets at least a 20 from me...
Need to remove the old ULS driver and get the Trotec one installed. Everything else should be the same (installed 20A service when I put in the outlets for the ULS... glad I did as the Trotec is definitely 20A-necessary). May have to purchase a short extension cord, though, as it's wall-->table-->laser, and the laser's plug is on the far side of the machine from the wall.
Hey Dan,
Still waiting for pictures and to see what you have cut and or engraved.
Part I of the review was started last night... I'm a writin' fool :p