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Thread: Some gears and testing for laser-ablating and -marking ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by VDX View Post
    ... actually building/developing for another "laser-marking" project - but with a blue 6W-laserdiode instead of a fiber-laser ... meant for foam and some organic material
    Are you planning on cutting flesh like a Bond-villain or are you going down the “laser tattoo” route?? 😂

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    ... no harm of living beings (or their remnants) planned! - "organic material" is more for plastics in contrary to ceramics and metal

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    ... and this is the "DIY"-collimator for the other end of the fiber ...

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    ... some more "DIY" -- To connect the ends of the armoured hose "more professionally looking", I turned off two aluminium sleeves - an M6 sleeve at the entrance end and an M5 sleeve at the other end ...

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    ... here one of my methodes for polishing the fiber ends - found a round piece of POM (Delrin), tapped with M5 ... here with thinserted and fixed fiber-holder for the exit end (without fiber, only for testing) ... after grinding test ... and while polishing -- works better, than comercial metal polishing pucks!

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    Thumbs up Brilliant idea!

    Astonishing results for such a low-tech solution, Viktor!

    Man, I wish you could come to SELEM and do a presentation for the group on all your engraving work. I *know* it would be well-received.

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    ...sorry, someway remote in distance ... but on Saturday I'm on a "Laserfreak.net"-event near Nuremberg

    Here some bad and some good results for the "DIY-high-power" fiber - it seems, the used 2K-glue was too close in optical parameters to the glass core -- so caught too much of the energy and had to evaporate completely around the fiber, before the laser light could emit straight forward, instead of heating the end

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    ... marking/engraving the back side of a glass tile "trough the glass"

    https://vimeo.com/334383563

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    Wait... You're not actually etching the glass, are you?

    Surely this is etching the back surface which is plated with metal, or plastic, or something like that, right? So you're etching that plated material?

    If you're actually etching the glass itself, how are you not causing any damage to the front face at the same time?

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    Hi Adam,

    the glass (even the dark tinted glass-tiles) are transparent enough for the 1064nm ... did the same with blue 455nm diodes and glass and acrylic too

    And the focus is on the back-side, so even some dust on the surface won't burn in an crack it

    Viktor


    PS: - did the same last year with smaller surface coated glass tiles - here, it with a first pass evaporated the coating, and only in the second pass engraved the back side ...
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