CO2 Laser Cutter

Here are the rest of the parts printed in black PLA, all of the items that require 606 bearings have them installed and secured with M3x10 screws. Cost of the printed parts: Filament Cost Total Part # Description (mm) (cm3) (£) Qty (£) B17005 Z Lift Plate 1939.6 4.7 0.066 7 0.465 B17007 Limit Switch…

Bart Dring provides all the details of the rotational axis to his Buildlog.net laser cutter here. Unfortunately for me he only supplies the detail for the parts in the STEP file available on the Wiki. Don’t get me wrong STEP files are potentially one of the best ways of supplying 3D information, however I don’t currently…

Many of the parts for the Buildlog.net 2.x laser call for 6mm (1/4″) Acrylic/HDPE/whatever, others are 12mm (1/2″) at their thickest and then reducing to 6mm or thinner. One obvious way to machine these from something like Acrylic or HDPE would be to use a milling machine and assorted drills/mills. Some of the flatter items could also be…

The Chinese Laser cutter/engraver arrived at about 18:00 last night (Friday), which is pretty impressive since I had only received the dispatch note and tracking number from the ebay seller that morning and it was quoting a delivery date of Monday, possibly Tuesday. The box was a lot heavier than I expected, however this is because…

One thing I have been doing for a little while now is creating all of the parts for the Buildlog laser in Google Sketchup – I really must start to learn some other 3D modelling package, but I have become so comfortable with Sketchup that it is still my ‘go-to’ modelling tool. One thing I don’t like about the…

The intention of this blog is to follow my (mis)adventures with taking a Chinese built 40W CO2 laser and turning it into something that is actually useable. The Chinese laser cutter/engraver machines come with some pretty nasty software, Moshi Draw, which for some unknown reason (I cannot believe anyone would actually choose to pirate this…