Lazer Cut Wood Parts

[hg-md]

Can anyone tell me about what it takes to lazer cut parts?

 

[Propjockey]

Ron.............?

 

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A steady hand and a light saber. LOL ;D

 

[Climate Boatworks]

What do you need? Some wood and a laser !!!

Seriously though, you need to make friends with someone who has a laser. Now lets see...who do we know that has one of those?

Oh ya...we do.

Then you need to send them a file of the parts you want cut. (in a format that they can use)

Next you send them your credit card number and your address where you want the parts sent to.

A little while later you get the parts you wanted and all is good in the world!

Peter

www.climatemodels.com

(yes we do have a laser)

 

[Ron Olson]

We can do up to a 12"x24" piece. We need a flie, it can be e-mailed or sent to us on a disc or CD-ROM. Peter can do larger pieces than us, he has a larger Laser cutter. So far, we have cut up to 1/8" thickness but it is slow, my Sister's is only 25 watts, Peter's is more like 250 watts I think.

 

[rcboatlover]

Where can I guy buy one of these laser setups? Any good web sites? Not that I have the money, just sounds like good reading! I had several HENE lasers as a kid and always wanted a co2 Boat building would be a good excuse to buy one!

 

[Jimmy Whitbeck]

Where can I guy buy one of these laser setups? Any good web sites? Not that I have the money, just sounds like good reading! I had several HENE lasers as a kid and always wanted a co2 Boat building would be a good excuse to buy one!

i know my work I have run there epilog 80 watt laser and it a piece of cake to use. comaaried to cnc! thare have a been a few on ebay . other than that i know epiloglaser.com hope thist right has reman's for sale as a new one is to costly as I know after a I put a few laser tubes in it and finly found the problem with the chiller it been working 24/7 now .

 

[Ian Inverarity]

Peter,

How large and how thick pieces of ply can you cut? ???

Ian.

 

[wswatzell]

If anyone needs CAD work done, let me know, I can help in that department as I did all the CAD work for the Hammerhead 12 ;D. that & we are getting slow at my work again. :-

 

[Ron Olson]

Put it this way, my Sister's "Cheapo" Laser cutter was a tad over $18,000.00. Then you have to buy a 'puter to run it plus the programs.

 

[Climate Boatworks]

Our laser is a Kern/Synrad system.

http://www.kernlasers.com

The thickness of material we can cut is determined by the material. For example, we can easily cut 1/2" thick plywood at .8 inches/second, but if we want to cut 1/2" thick plexiglass, we have to cut it at .4 inches/second.

Our cutting size is only limited to 52" in width. There is no restriction on length as the table is open on the ends. We have cut rolls of vinyl over 200 feet long with an X axis roller instead of the X axis on the table.

We also have full XYZ cutting ability.

Oh just for your information, these features do not come cheap. You are looking at $130.000.00 + computers and support equipment.

Figure another $5000 - $8000 for final set up to be up and running. With everything, pull $135.000.00 out of your wallet and you should be set to go.

We will be putting a page up on our website next week that helps explain some of the FAQ's of laser cutting.

Peter

 

[MarkScott]

$135K, pocket change... ;D

 

[Jeff Torgalski]

Yeah, if it were really pocket change for me then I would be tweaking my 250 horse Merc and be busy testing my Seebold hull right now.

 

[Jimmy Whitbeck]

Our laser is a Kern/Synrad system.

http://www.kernlasers.com

The thickness of material we can cut is determined by the material. For example, we can easily cut 1/2" thick plywood at .8 inches/second, but if we want to cut 1/2" thick plexiglass, we have to cut it at .4 inches/second.

Our cutting size is only limited to 52" in width. There is no restriction on length as the table is open on the ends. We have cut rolls of vinyl over 200 feet long with an X axis roller instead of the X axis on the table.

We also have full XYZ cutting ability.

Oh just for your information, these features do not come cheap. You are looking at $130.000.00 + computers and support equipment.

Figure another $5000 - $8000 for final set up to be up and running. With everything, pull $135.000.00 out of your wallet and you should be set to go.

We will be putting a page up on our website next week that helps explain some of the FAQ's of laser cutting.

Peter

So what is laser time costing per hour !

 

[Climate Boatworks]

If all the drawings are done and in a ready to cut format, the laser will run about $1.30 / min or $78.00 USD /hour.

Drawing set up and formating averages $45.00 USD /hour.

Material and shipping costs are added as required.

It sounds expensive, but when you work out the actual cutting time per dollar, it is quite reasonable.

Cutting an average kit will range from 20-40 dollars. Prety cheap when you think the laser will take 10-15 min. to cut what would take you 4-6 hours by hand.

Peter

 

[Finne]

anyone tried watercutting?

I read somewhere about how to build one. Don't have the link anymore, but the principle looked fairly simple. Just a long vertical steel pipe with water to build up the preasure.

anyone know an url about this?

 

[TomMoorehouse]

no but id like to see it!

 

[Ron Olson]

We need Wade in here for this one, I think that they do it where he works at. I don't think that it is quite that simple, you probably have to have some good high-pressure equipment to do it.

 

[Finne]

yes probably. I meant that createing the preasure shouldn't be to difficult.

But I spose the tools cost quite a bit.

 

[Propjockey]

I wouldn't think cutting wood with high pressure water would be very effective. Wouldn't the cut edges swell/fray?