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I purchased a high wattage CO2 laser and this blog was created to chronicle my progress.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
alignment protocol
remove support grate
remove lens housing, clean lens
replace lens housing
unscrew metric aperture tube
place tape over hole of english aperture tube
use prick punch to locate center
draw cross hair on tape using scalpel as a scoring tool
place triangle on side of aperture tube using blue tape
run air brush compressor
screw in aperture tube/scotch tape assembly
pulse laser
adjust beam
repeat
screw in metric aperture tube and aperture
power test:
75 watts was delivered with the aperture
remove lens housing, clean lens
replace lens housing
unscrew metric aperture tube
place tape over hole of english aperture tube
use prick punch to locate center
draw cross hair on tape using scalpel as a scoring tool
place triangle on side of aperture tube using blue tape
run air brush compressor
screw in aperture tube/scotch tape assembly
pulse laser
adjust beam
repeat
screw in metric aperture tube and aperture
power test:
75 watts was delivered with the aperture
