Hello everyone, and thanks to pass by
I'm some kind of new in these world of laser engraving
I have bought a little cnc machine designed for routing and engraving and I want to test it with a laser to make some engraving, I think I can start doing it in scissors made of stainless steel
I found an example on the internet of what I intend to do, are the next images (attached?):
And, the point is if I can use these laser from a ebay seller, that have atracted my attention: (link)
laser from ebay
in fact I think is a good price, but, I have some questions:
- It is suitable to engrave stainless steel?
- Is it dangerous if the beam gets reflected from the steel?
- If is dangerous, is any way to filter the reflected beams?
- Any way to control the diameter of the marking point?
- Is any way to control the power output of the laser? Due to prevent getting trough (cut?) the borders of the material?
- What about the focus of the laser? :O?
- Is any way to control it from Mach3 like a plasma torch? :O?
- In the case that it is siutable, what ranges of speeds work for engraving?
The cnc that I have has a precision better than 0.04 mm, uses ballscrews and 1,500 RPM (nominal) nema 23 steper motors, I have no tested yet the real limit speed of the feed in all axis
but the seller says: No load Speed: 0-5000mm/min
so please, I'm very interested in this type of engraving in my machine, it will be very helpful to "personalize" the items that I'm intendig to sell, jeje
any info will be very very very very! apreciated
thanks a lot!:wave:
Tony