LASER CUTTER
Hello:
I thought you might like to know about a machine I was last
weekend. It is called a laser cutter and is manufactured by
Universal Lasers in Scotts Valley AZ. The Laser Cutter can carve
a variety of nonmetallic materials such as plastic and wood. The
unit I saw used a 25 watt laser and was the size of a household
chest freezer. It has a work area or eleven by seventeen inches
and can handle items up to about six inches high. A computer using
graphics software such as Correl Draw prepares an image. As far as
the computer software is concerned, the laser cutter is a HP
laserjet printer. When the machine runs there are some fans that
exhaust the fumes outside. Other than that the ;machine is quiet.
It cut some pieces from some one tenth inch acrylic plastic at a
rate or one centimeter per second. The laser cutter can cut deeper
into material if it does repeated passes. I am helping a friend
get some pieces of plastic cut to make a communications system for
some severely disabled blind children. Which was why I was
checking out this machine in the first place. The cut pieces were
ready to be used and didn't have rough edges. If people are
interested, I will provide more information.
Robert Jaquiss
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