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PROBLEM SOLVED! After spending a while on the phone with a ULS tech, and after trouble-shooting just about everything, we were told it most likely was one of the belts/bearings/motors. They highly...

Thanks Mike, I will probably take you up on that. The owner wants to come down here before I proceed any further... so I'll be in touch. I appreciate the help, a lot.

Mike, I misread your comment about the air-assist hose -- I should still have one even if I don't have air assist, right? I will pull the engraving table out and look underneath, down by the belts,...

Yes that's right, it is a 3.50 -- my bad.

X axis feels just fine, and moves smoothly. It sounds normal. That is why this is so strange -- my ears don't detect anything jammed or slipping, and I...

Thanks Mike,

We use Corel X4, to a Versal Laser 40w (not sure the model - I can look). I already tried engraving in a different spot on the table, and got the same results with no difference in...

I should also note that the red laser dot that is visible when the machine cover is open appears normal on the material/table, as in it doesn't look like 2 seperate dots or anything...

Good morning everyone...

I am hoping someone might have a few helpful ideas they can share while I troubleshoot our laser this morning. I have tried to run a few jobs and keep getting a...

Do you own testing -- there is no magic formula. Engrave a series of "black" boxes, all 3-5% different in Power. Leave your speed at 90%-100% or whatever you usually do for brass or aluminum sheet...

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but try 10% speed, 100% power. Should help a lot.

I recommend going about half power (50%) and slow speed (25%) for nice dark results. In my experience, if you go fast you'll get lighter-colored sections in the engraving where the grain is...

I have a potential customer who wants me to vector-cut what appears to be very thin rubber (approximately 1/32" thick) to use as gaskets for an industrial application on electic panels. Some of it is...

I've used 1/16" Rowmark LaserMax or MetalGraph with great results. If you're worried about the split ring breaking through the hole @ the top of the tag, you can laser two identical tag-shapes and...

I forget what the JDS pinbacks look like.... are they the ones with the white foam-tape with the light yellow paper you peel off? If so, I have never had a problem with these. Maybe a bad batch?

Thanks for sharing... Glad to know a fellow engraver is back up and running with a new tube!

So a fellow engraving buddy of mine is thinking about getting a tattoo to "encapsulate" his engraving experiences, as he has been in the trade a long time and likes inking memorable chapters of his...

We got ours!

Aww lucky... ours is a 2009 model and all the tables (engraving, cutting, rotary) have plugs that communicate with the laser when the table is installed. I have worked on VersaLasers from the...

Lee,

Yes, it is a VersaLaser (ULS). As far as I know the laser won't engrave without the table in place (which is why each table has a plug - to tell the laser it's okay to burn away)...

I'm...

Anyone know of a somewhat safe, easy way to "cheat" the laser into buying me an extra 1/4" of focus depth? I have a job for something that is 4" and my ULS will only focus to about 3-5/8" or so. It...

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I am never THAT paranoid on a day-to-day basis when running the laser and watching it do it's work, but I also know not to trust things rated as "safe". It can be taken so many different ways, or...

Nicely done! Thanks for sharing the pics!

Nice work! Hope it paid off for ya.

Ditto! Nothing is worse than the stair-stepped curves a laser will do when running at even a medium pace!

Since I first replied to this post I've had a chance to mess around with the Laserblak a little more... and I realized that using our standard brass/aluminum settings was overpowered, thus creating...