Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: now LASERs --

Ron Kline wrote:

>>l.
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>>Most people would be happy with building a 10 to 50 watt cutter. That
>>is the power level where things are relatively cheap. I would like to
>>get a 200 watt system eventually and try some thin steels, but right
>>now paper, acrylic,
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>You mention acrylic I have a product I would like to make out of
>colored 1/16 acrylic about like the drafting triangles some of us used
>to use , any idea how many watts it takes to cut that stuff ( don't
>need real high speed ) ?
>
>
>

I know this can be done in the 20 - 50 W range. There was a guy in the
St. Louis area
that was making indirect-lighting for aircraft instrument panels that
way. He used one
layer of 1/16" clear acrylic covered with 1/16" of matte black. There
were all sorts of
grooves for the wires to the grain of wheat bulbs. Very cool stuff. He
had a variable-
power flowing-gas CO2 laser.

Jon


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