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From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#12]
 26 Mar 2007
To: UncleSteve [#11] 26 Mar 2007

Steve,

I agree with your recommendation. I would also add that the best design would be something made of metal, not acrylic. I just couldn't beat the price of acrylic scrap. :-)


From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#13]
 26 Mar 2007
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#12] 27 Mar 2007

How thick was the acrylic?

From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#14]
 27 Mar 2007
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#13] 27 Mar 2007

The acrylic I used was 1/16".

From: precisionlaser [#15]
 2 Apr 2007
To: ALL

Since I mentioned using Legos for jigging, I thought I'd include a couple of images of this in use. One attached image shows the jig before loading and the other shows a load of 24 2" cubes with laser tape applied before burning the masks. We set up a Corel document with all 24 locations calibrated to the position of the jig and we simply hit the button and did other things while the laser burned the masks. Total time to burn was 18 minutes each load. We burned, blasted, packed and shipped 100 of them Friday afternoon by 4:30.

You'll notice the Lego board is scorched, but that comes from using it in our sub-surface machines not the Epilog.


From: JHayes55 [#16]
 2 Apr 2007
To: precisionlaser [#15] 3 Apr 2007

Mark - thank you for your post. This maybe one of the best ideas I have seen in quite some time. Now I have to convience my 22 year old, soon to be civil engineer, son to give up his Legos for dad to use.

From: precisionlaser [#17]
 3 Apr 2007
To: JHayes55 [#16] 3 Apr 2007

I think I may have mentioned this before, but we had to order them direct from Lego because Toys R Us didn't have enough of the right shapes in stock. As it was, we bought their entire stock of grey Lego plates and had to order more (we used about 30 of them on our large bed laser).

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