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Unread 06-26-2022, 05:45 PM   #2
Rich Z
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In between every thing else going on around here, I fiddled around with the fiber laser I bought. I actually ordered it before (literally) the sheet hit the fan, healthwise for Connie and I. I was going to cancel the order, but Connie wanted me to go ahead and get it. That was before my heart attack and she figured it would give me something to do on days when she wasn't feeling very good, and there was nothing I could do but sit in the house worrying about her.

So anyway......

Yesterday I set it up to engrave those angle tools I bought. I wound up buying two sets of them, figuring that would make it easier setting up work pieces on the milling machine. I only engraved one side of each set, but might do the other sides if I feel ambitious some day.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LndxJUPPYs4

I still haven't gotten the rotary device for the laser to work properly yet, but once I get that figured out, I may engrave some of the sockets I have that are a bit difficult to read easily. That will probably take a while to do, since each one would have to be set up individually, one at a time. But heck, I'm retired, and a heart attack survivor, so I don't have anything better to do without going outside in the heat, and it is not hard work, neither.

Originally I was going to put the laser in the garage, so all of the tools I had in mind engraving would be handy. But it gets really hot in there during the summer months, and the instructions state to not run the laser in ambient temps over 90 degrees. So that would mean the only time I could run the laser would be early hours in the morning. But I just am not a morning person, so I decided to move the laser into the old reptile building instead, where I can use it any time I get an urge to do so.

As for the LaserPecker, which is suited mostly for engraving wood, I had to send back part of it because the buttons that controlled the height of the laser were really flaky. I got the replacement in a little while ago, but haven't had much incentive to play with it. Engraving on metal just seems like a whole lot more fun to me. Now if I could just make this into some sort of hand held weapon........
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