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Laser Cut Acrylic : Laser Cutting Machines
..a little something off our lasers. 😀
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Blimey ken that is a monster ! You must have some serious lasers there – is that 20mm acrylic ? It’s all mine can do to get through an 8mm sheet 😀
Nigel
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Our two will cut through 40mm 😮
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😮 😮 Thats frightning! must be a big market out there to justify buying something like that.
Cheers for scaring me
Dave
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quote DaveBruce:😮 😮 Thats frightning! must be a big market out there to justify buying something like that.
lol, I’ve got two of them.
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shes never a monster mate.. shame on you 😆 😆 😉
seriously though, cracking work mate.. thats a healthy bit of machinery though.
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quote Robert Lambie:shes never a monster mate.. shame on you 😆 😆 😉
seriously though, cracking work mate.. thats a healthy bit of machinery though.
was that work a show peice or an actualy order?The 20mm head is a show piece but we do make a full 6mm thick model as a promotional item to send to prospective customers.
The idea is that it makes them think about the design possibilities of laser cut acrylic and then incorporate those thoughts into their next project.
Since we started sending them out I’ve have loads of enquiries for them so I’ve been knocking them out on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2231104521
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what size of router bed is that ken (?) looks big!
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quote Robert Lambie:what size of router bed is that ken (?) looks big!
Each of the lasers have two 3100 x 2100 beds that slide away from the cutting heads allowing the operator to load and unload material while the other panel is being cut.
Our routers are a little different: One has a 3m x 1.5m bed, one cutting head [with 10 bit tool changer] and an 8 piece drilling head whereas the other has a 3m x 1m bed, 4 cutting heads each with a 6 piece drilling head.
This is one of them.
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Wow , thats a serious laser. What power is it?
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quote Rodney Gold:Wow , thats a serious laser. What power is it?
Both units are 1000 watts. I’ve got some new more photos coming soon, I’ve also got a movie but it’s 46 megs.
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What source are you using , we have 3 small 1m x 500 mm 50w Coherent Deos based lasers which are more for engraving tho can cut up to 12mm acrylic , but I am considering retrofitting a large format TekCell overhead router with a Rofin sinar 1kw source for thin film metal cutting and so forth , much like your setup. What concerns me is running an open laser in respect of fumes and beam reflection etc.
What is your Z clearance on the laser , it would be around 150mm on our side.
It looks like your head assembly sort of encloses the area it’s cutting?
how do you find reliability etc? do you use gas assist ? what sort of kerf width does your machine produce?
Problem here with large format lasers is that there are a lot of them around , up to 5kw , and its not really economic for me to get a obscenely expensive 3kw or so considering the cost of fitting a 1kw to my exisiting table would be in the GBP25k mark or so and the fact that there is a price war out here in terms of heavy duty laser cutting. Where there IS an opportunity is thin films , most of the big lasers here cant cut thin (1mm or so) Stainless well as their palleting systems and motion of the laser and the HAZ tends to make the thin films chatter so the cuts are very serrated , apart from which their kerf widths are about .5mm or more.
My other option is a flying optic 100w YAG (which will engrave and cut metal) , retrofitting to my Tekcel would allow engraving , but in vector mode only. Can you engrave with your machine? -
Hang on while I go and ask someone technical for some answers for you…. I only own the place. 😉
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