How's that mini laser engraver working?

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Neededwill

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Sorry just saw this, well it seems the company was taking over 2 weeks to process my order so I contacted them. They said they will find out and get back to me. Well they did by canceling my order. I called them and all they would say is my order was cancelled. So I just said I guess that's a sign.

So never got to try it and didn't put more effort into it.
 

Neededwill

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12 mins could be slow but for a $100 hobby laser it works for me. I am not sure how deep, I still have to adjust the laser with each piece since the height is different on the pens. I will try the lettering probably this weekend.
 

raar25

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Do you need to rotate the pen or just do it in one plain? If you rotate it how is it done since the laser does not have a rotorary head?
 

chartle

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Do you need to rotate the pen or just do it in one plain? If you rotate it how is it done since the laser does not have a rotorary head?

Interested in this also but it would be fairly easy to hack. You just disconnect the stepper motor from the y axis and attach it to a jig that rotates the pen.

Probably have to fiddle with getting the right rotation distance but the speed the laser moves would be the same the pen should rotate.
 

Neededwill

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I didnt rotate it, I just sat in on a v wedge and let it run, I wanted to see if it could do to the edges without rotating. Still need to experiment more but so far it seems it will do what I need it for.

I dont sell my pens, I give them away and people just give me donations for the material cost, love this hobby!!

But if I was selling them I might be more critical on the quality.
 
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