When I have been cutting recently I’ve noticed that my laser has been burning the paper layer a lot. The bottom sensors and lens keeps getting covered in black ash. At first I just noticed that some of the paper would be a bit scorched, but later I see it causing pretty large flames. I am thinking i…

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Burning when lasering?

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rbtdanforth August 15, 2020, 2:29am 12

zoramite:

it was really caked and dirty.

Cleaning the head fan on the drive carriage Beyond the Manual

I was pouring hand sanitizer through the fan while sucking it outwith a vacuum cleaner and then letting the cleaner run a half hour to get all the sanitizer evaporated off, This dissolved all the gunk no matter where it was hiding along the way. Official descriptions here,

Maple plywood 3mm and bamboo plywood 3mm Beyond the Manual

With the machine off and the hose of a vacuum cleaner attached to the exhaust of the head fan (I used an old C-pap hose) I squirt Purell hand sanitizer into the fan that the running vacuum will speed up and clean everything. This was what it looked like before cleaning… [20180625_222237] As noted any flame will reduce the power of the cut a great deal.

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My not official way of cleaning the head fan is to attach an old C-pap hose to my shop-vac and put the rubber end in the outlet of that head fan, With the Glowforge completely off the shop-vac is turned on and if gunked up enough will not even turn the fan. I then pump in the Alcohol Hand Sanitizer that is very good at dissolving gunk and the sanitizer and dissolved gunk are sucked away by the shop-vac and I add more till the fan is spinning nicely and the gunk is dissolves away. I then let t…

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