Beta day - two (Corrugated Cardboard)

[jkopel]

Why do you hate red?

[henryhbk]

Where do you even get a red power cord?

[rpegg]

Easy Bake Oven? Similar technologies.

[smcgathyfay]

Red power cords are good…high visability…and everyone knows not to cut the red wire so its a safety precaution…lol.

[marmak3261]

Hey, red is a good contrast. Sometimes in the rats nest of cables behind or under desks it is hard to tell the difference. Gives me an idea to mark them different colors. Sometimes I have six different hand power tools plugged in to one strip when I am working on something. It gets confusing.

[smcgathyfay]

When you get your glowforge you can cut little identifier tabs and put them on zip ties on each cord.

[dan]

@henryhbk

So that stack of cuts was seconds, minutes or hours?

Remember - I’ll answer your questions, but I made Josh promise he wouldn’t.

I can’t remember the settings for cardboard, but eyeballing, that’s a few minutes work.

(By the way, full disclosure: we’re asking a lot of Josh, as the first “forum reporter” beta tester, so we’re paying him. He volunteered to do it for free but that didn’t feel right given the amount we’d be demanding of him. We probably won’t pay future beta testers.)

[dan]

@Hirudin

I’d, personally, like to see real-time video of the machine running. There’s already a fair bit of marketing video out there, I’d like to see what the machine actually does.

This is a good thing to ask us for; we’ve asked @jkopel to spend his time using the machine for his purposes and to leave forum requests to us.

We’ll get a realtime video of something posted for you soon. (@jkopel’s of course welcome to do it, but he’s a nice guy and will likely feel obligated to take requests unless I remind you all that he helps us all the most by doing what he wants, and not what you want )

[dan]

@Hirudin

I was thinking about this a little, and I now agree with you a little more. Real-time video would probably get old after a while.

By the way… we posted a bunch of video from a past open house here:

- YouTube

there’s definitely realtime cutting going on.

[nick07lee]

Where do you post these normally?

[rpegg]

BTW: Video from Oct 20th.

[Hirudin]

Right on, thanks! I watched a little and it looks exactly like the kind of video I was asking for. Thanks again!

Darn, I guess when I subscribed to that channel I neglected to go watch all the posted videos. Strange, that’s not like me.

[dan]

@nick07lee

Where do you post these normally?

Our youtube channel. But it’s really time consuming to do good (or even marginal) video and audio, so we don’t do it often.

[danielleannalee]

My husband would love to build a forge also. He is a welder fabricator but learned the blacksmith trade from a great guy before we moved to Hawaii!