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  1. 03-02-2018, 12:35 AM #31
    Nick Hale
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Watkins View Post
    I've been working away at a 0.016" thick 12x18 brass sheet from Hobby Lobby. Today I decided to make a little Arizona pendant. The Arizona text has some depth to it and was done with a auto rotate .02 hatch and about 20 be passes. Cutting took about a minute and the entire pendant measures a little over an inch.

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  2. 03-02-2018, 12:48 PM #32
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nick Hale View Post
    What power laser are you using?
    Hi Nick, it's a 30w MOPAfrom RayFine, the specific source I had them install is the JPT YDFLP-30-M6+-L1. It has the highest output of their 30 watt MOPA series.

    I attached a picture of one of the color tests I did on the bottom of a stainless tumbler. I'm always learning with it and when something fails I give it a go another time and sometimes find a setting that works. I gave up on a particular leather a few weeks ago but was able to dial it in yesterday.
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  3. 03-02-2018, 3:05 PM #33
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    So please don't flame me but this may not have been very difficult to make but when you are faced with a very old cash register where parts are impossible to get, you get the job done and the register open for business.
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  4. 03-02-2018, 3:55 PM #34
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    Looks like you have a color laser! : ) What is with the colors?
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  5. 03-02-2018, 4:06 PM #35
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    Quote Originally Posted by David DiPietro View Post
    So please don't flame me but this may not have been very difficult to make but when you are faced with a very old cash register where parts are impossible to get, you get the job done and the register open for business.
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    Lol, that's awesome. One of the first things I made when I got my Co2 Laser was a gear for my vertical blinds. $0.10 worth of acrylic vs a $80 kit to get one piece is a no brainer. I've got a 3d Printer and the majority of what I've made have been useful widgets and repair items.

    @Joseph, do you mean my color grid? It's just one of the test patters I did with my MOPA. I've been working on a few different logos and will post some color things when I get some I can share.
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  6. 03-02-2018, 4:13 PM #36
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    Gears and teeth are more complicated than some might think! Good job!

    Yesterday I got one of those "I need these today!!" phone calls, part of which was "but I don't know if you can do these, or hold the tolerance they want?"
    this was the job, etch a black line around a stainless part, some sort of medical tool-
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    pretty tiny and tight tolerances to be sure, especially considering the line is to be .012" wide and the laser beam is half that wide!

    this was how I did them- I needed a tailstock stop that would serve as the zero-start point, and keep the rod rolling true-
    the rods are only .090" diameter, and where the line is engraved is only .034", less than a mm... any runout and the
    beam will miss the rod! And that did happen a couple of times anyway. This was the only pic I got where the camera
    caught the laser firing. The stop is just a piece of dowel I made from some other job and an aluminum hole cutout with
    a tiny hole start to keep the point steady...
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    I ended up with 5 good parts and 5 that were out of tolerance.
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    They needed only 2 good ones, thankfully!
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  7. 03-02-2018, 11:36 PM #37
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    Awesome, I have their 30w q-switched fiber. I almost upgraded to the MOPA but I cheaped out. I have yet to actually find anything thin enough to cut out. I will have to pick some of that material up and try it out.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Watkins View Post
    Hi Nick, it's a 30w MOPAfrom RayFine, the specific source I had them install is the JPT YDFLP-30-M6+-L1. It has the highest output of their 30 watt MOPA series.

    I attached a picture of one of the color tests I did on the bottom of a stainless tumbler. I'm always learning with it and when something fails I give it a go another time and sometimes find a setting that works. I gave up on a particular leather a few weeks ago but was able to dial it in yesterday.
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  8. 03-05-2018, 12:13 PM #38
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    This was done on scrap 20mm MDF so some of the cuts from the back side showed through.
    Trying on other media so that I can get yet more detail.
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  9. 03-07-2018, 11:19 AM #39
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    We do picture framing so here's a frame made from 100 year old barnwood with some leather feathers. Feather design is engraved into Delrin then stamped into leather.
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  10. 03-07-2018, 11:38 AM #40
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    Now THAT'S cool!
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  11. 03-07-2018, 4:12 PM #41
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    wow that's really nice
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  13. 03-09-2018, 12:36 AM #43
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Childers View Post
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    Do you have any words of wisdom that you would mind departing with? I bought my fiber laser just to do stippling
    Ive been to scared to try it yet!
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  14. 03-09-2018, 9:13 AM #44
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    Unfortunately I work in production, so the most creativity I'm allowed is when I have to tweak a customers company logo
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  15. 03-09-2018, 10:54 AM #45
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    Yes. Is the color a coating?
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