>>> If you want laser cut from them, you pay.. I think it is $150 for any sized >>> job. >> >> Yeah, that's why I plonked down $600 for a laser cutter of my own.
> Is that laser cutter similar to the ones that are selling on E- > bay?....Hard to believe the price. How does it work with 1/8 inch > acrylic cutting?....thanks... Yup, bought mine from eBay. Granted, these aren't the plug-and-play units advertised, but I expected that. I was basically buying a laser tube and power supply, enclosure, steppers, gantry, and optics. The controller board that came with it had electrolytics that were already leaking, but since I never intended to run it with MS-DOS via a parallel port anyway, I just replaced it with an EiBot board and talk to it via USB. Cuts through 1/8 acrylic just fine, but for that kind of work, you really want to add air assist (the air keeps the fumes off the optics and helps blow the melted plastic away from the cut so it won't just fuse itself back in place after the cut is made. Pics and story on my blog: http://bodger.dreamwidth.org/14594.html I took this approach because I'm cheap and I like to tinker. If you want a nicer unit, with air assist and the work already done (and don't mind being stuck with MS-DOS to run it), you can buy somewhat nicer units from a US vendor for $1850 here: http://fslaser.com/products/lasers/hobby-lasers/40wbasic - John KG4L -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
