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Don't you think you should check with the original poster of the other forum before posting here?

Don't you mean Tiler02 (James Stokes), he was the one who posted it. It is mentioned here on an earlier post.

Keith,

Done, do you have a links page? If not I'll remove the link to SMC from our forum. The Forums are targeting different members, ours is mainly for the engraver.

Thanks

It looks great! Thanks!!

David also announced today it will be a paid membership site when it comes back up. $10 month, $99 a year and early bird special of $79 to join.

Raise it, some people just don't realize what the true costs are and give their work away, no reason why you should.

I have the same machine, I just ran one and with paint and clean up it was 16 minutes for one! For that quanity I would charge 13.50 each minimum for that job. If you got it to 15 min each average,...

I always try and get $1.50 to $2.00 per minute. I wouldn't touch that job for less than $10-15 per unit. At $1.00 that is an insult and the customer is setting a very low price to see if your crazy...

Mike,

With the prices you charge I should just sub contract to you. You really can't be making any money if you concider overhead, time, material and equipment cost.

It sounds like you want instant profit. That doesn't normally happen, you have to grow your business, which can take time. All of the items you mentioned are low profit items that take time to do,...

Joe,

I'm well aware of that. But, the customer doesn't always listen or forgets to tell the designer to save it in an older format. In most cases it is easier and less time consuming to resave it...

David,

Not really true. Corel doesn't do a good job of reading AI files. I usually have to open them in Illustrator and resave them as PDF compatable AI files. Almost 90% of the AI files I receive...

I find it interesting that ULS will sell direct and ship anywhere in the world. That would upset me if I was a rep.

Mason,

The plate was added to make it rigid and a bottom stop for the wooden pegs, you could also use mdf. The sides are made from 1/8" acrylic and attached with weld-on #3. It acts as a tray to...

Barbara,

I checked Target today and they are 10.95 regular price in Kansas.

Michael is your $21.95 + s&h retail?? If you sell them for $30 as you suggested, you would lose money on every order.

Here is a picture of my cutting table. I used 1/4 acrylic cut to 12"x12" and lasered all the peg holes. I then contact cemented an anodized aluminium plate to the acrylic. The grid is 1/2" on center...

Keith,

This gives me an excuse to make some changes to the first design. I'll start the new design tonight and take some pictures and do a write up, I should have it done in a couple of days.

Hi Keith,

I have the (old) epilog cutting grid for my 24tt that left tick marks on acrlic when cutting. To fix the problem I made a simple one that uses 1/4" acrylic for the base and wooden toy...

Rebecca,

On the 24TT I have 3 mirrors to adjust, if I just adjust the top and bottom I have problems, but the 3rd mirror (steering mirror) is the one that gives me the evenly distributed power...

On the 24TT I have 3 mirrors to adjust, the upper, lower and steering miror on the X axis bar. If I just adjust the upper and lower the power is all over the place when lasering. The red dot pointer...

Mason,

It's not that we don't share designs it just that everyone has different ways of laying out projects, so each person has a special way they like to have fixtures or jigs for their own...

Roy,

What is the end cap upgrade? Is that the new x motor bearing bracket?

Hi Dave,

He has the Mini 24. The mini doesn't have LCD control panel features that the 24TT has. The vacumn table is a good idea, but after seeing his, it needs more work. The Mini is slower, I...

Dave,

I find it interesting that you would give up speed and features to goto a mini. Other than the fact of it being 45 watts vs 35 watts. A friend of mine has a mini and he wants my TT.

I had a similar problem, I had to uninstall Corel 12 and install it again to get rid of the problem.