Co2 laser!

[Dstrbdmedic167]

Figured this was best suited for here and this isn’t a promo, I just wanted to share my new toy lol.

Anyway, Recently picked up a 65w Co2 laser to help my mom with her craft business she does on the side. I agreed to run it for her since she admitted she’s not ver tech savvy. Anyway. Had it about 2 weeks and absolutely love it. So many different things you can do.

However; I know someone will ask and no I can’t go deep engraving or mags like you see with all the cool logos. That requires a fiber laser.

Here’s a few things I’ve done recently.

 

[CHRIS_WNC]

Cermark is good on some metals. We run our 150w really slow and at a low freq to get some good etching in stainless.
I've been working at a laser shop for about a year and a half. They are wicked fun!

CHRIS
EDIT: I removed "depth" from the stainless sentence. It's just a strong etch.

 

[Dstrbdmedic167]

Cermark is good on some metals. We run our 150w really slow and at a low freq to get some good etching in stainless.
I've been working at a laser shop for about a year and a half. They are wicked fun!

CHRIS
EDIT: I removed "depth" from the stainless sentence. It's just a strong etch.

Thanks I have some and the rotary but I’ve honestly been so busy I haven’t had a chance to hook it up to run it.

I wanted a bigger table that would of course give us more wattage but figured we’d start here and work our way up.

It’s still amazing watching it go.


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[CHRIS_WNC]

We have a little 40w Epilog with rotary that gets used quite often. The cheap "powder coated" and rubber coated tumblers turn our well using it. Our 60 fiber has a horrible rotary that is a pain in the butt to set up and operate. It doesn't get used much. All of our cup work goes on the Epilog with its very simple rotary attachment.

I can say that the CorelDraw based software is a lot easier to use than full on CAD/CAM software. Print to cut/etch vs GCode is the way to go.

CHRIS

 

[Dstrbdmedic167]

We have a little 40w Epilog with rotary that gets used quite often. The cheap "powder coated" and rubber coated tumblers turn our well using it. Our 60 fiber has a horrible rotary that is a pain in the butt to set up and operate. It doesn't get used much. All of our cup work goes on the Epilog with its very simple rotary attachment.

I can say that the CorelDraw based software is a lot easier to use than full on CAD/CAM software. Print to cut/etch vs GCode is the way to go.

CHRIS

We looked at an epilog and ended up with a Boss. So far I really like it.

I’ve been using illustrator and the burn software, lightburn. So far that’s all I’ve needed and it works well for most design work/ projects.


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[Stick Man]

We have a Boss laser too. Thing does some awesome work.

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[Dstrbdmedic167]

We have a Boss laser too. Thing does some awesome work.

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Nice! What model do you guys have?


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[Stick Man]

Nice! What model do you guys have?


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I believe it's a 1630.

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[Dstrbdmedic167]

I believe it's a 1630.

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Nice. We have the 1420 so just a step down. At the rate things are going we will be upgrading soon.


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[Stick Man]

Yeah, we need to upgrade now ourselves. We just put another Colex digital cutter in a couple months ago. These things are amazing.
https://www.colex.com/sharpcut-digi...ing_wp_cron=1587427686.7247679233551025390625

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[Dstrbdmedic167]

Yeah, we need to upgrade now ourselves. We just put another Colex digital cutter in a couple months ago. These things are amazing.
https://www.colex.com/sharpcut-digi...ing_wp_cron=1587427686.7247679233551025390625

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That’s amazing. I think our next purchase will be a fiber laser. I’d have so much more work if I had one already.


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[Stick Man]

I hear that. These machines are crazy for sure.

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[Dave951]

Place I used to work used CO2 lasers. Weakest one was 1500 watts. It would go through 1/2 steel like hot butter.

 

[JimP42]

Place I used to work used CO2 lasers. Weakest one was 1500 watts. It would go through 1/2 steel like hot butter.

Hot butter doesn't go through 1/2 steel...

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

[50 SOFU]

New guy here digging up an old thread.
Hoping to pick up a fiber laser in the near future for tinkering after retirement.
I've been programming C02 lasers for my employer since 95.
We started with a 2K Mitsubishi and currently run a 4K Prima with a rotary.
Boss has been researching fiber for a while. Probably waiting for me to retire to pull the trigger.

 

[CHRIS_WNC]

A local knife guy recently bought a 40w fiber marker straight from China. I think he paid less than $2k for it. The pawn shop in town has less than $12k in their no-name fiber marker. We have a $90k American made fiber unit at the shop. All three mark and etch the same and run extremely similar software.

CHRIS