richard_t
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I'm back - kind of, and not sure for how long. Progress on the house is sloooooow - we have planning permission and my Arhcitects think a start can be made before Christmas at knocking this one down and starting on the new one. I doubt it as we can't even get hold of a few bricks as samples to help choose them - one of the conditions from the council is a list of materials ... sigh ...
Anyhow...
I recently purchased an xTool D1 Pro laser engraver/cutter. I spent last (wet) Sunday putting the main unit together, and then in-between work, putting the rest of it together (the air-assist, enclosure, etc.) and today fired it up for the first time - and promptly triggered the fire sensor on the thing! Too aggressive settings (i.e. my fault). It came with a small sample pack of material, but I'm nearly through the 2 bits of plywood, so some more material is on the order books.
I've set it up in the conservatory for now (which can be closed off from the rest of the house, and it's simply venting through an open window. There's a bit of a smell, but given the window is in the prevailing wind direction that's not surprising.
And a quick snap of the "combination" test piece - i.e. I'm cramming as much as I can on it, so it's got all sort's of different files and cuts... (and yes on the reverse is the test that triggered the fire alarm):
What I don't overly like about it is:
We're (Mylo and me) are out tomorrow, it's should have been my late wife's birthday, and then on Saturday I'm making this year's Christmas cake, but hopefully I'll get to play with the cutter a bit more whilst that's in the oven - assuming I don't run out of plywood.
If people are interested I'll try to report back on progress ... until it all goes into storage :-(
Richard
Anyhow...
I recently purchased an xTool D1 Pro laser engraver/cutter. I spent last (wet) Sunday putting the main unit together, and then in-between work, putting the rest of it together (the air-assist, enclosure, etc.) and today fired it up for the first time - and promptly triggered the fire sensor on the thing! Too aggressive settings (i.e. my fault). It came with a small sample pack of material, but I'm nearly through the 2 bits of plywood, so some more material is on the order books.
I've set it up in the conservatory for now (which can be closed off from the rest of the house, and it's simply venting through an open window. There's a bit of a smell, but given the window is in the prevailing wind direction that's not surprising.
And a quick snap of the "combination" test piece - i.e. I'm cramming as much as I can on it, so it's got all sort's of different files and cuts... (and yes on the reverse is the test that triggered the fire alarm):
What I don't overly like about it is:
- Lightburn can only connect via USB, and not over the WIFI (I knew about this before I got it, and it's fine whilst I'm testing, but once I get into "production mode", I can see that's going to be a pain.)
- The enclosure it very annoying ... I suspect the normal sized version is probably ok, but the extended one is very wobbly ... I can see I'll either have to make a custom enclosure, or at least add some bits of MDF/Ply to the sides of the 18mm MDF base it's currently on. That's going to be difficult when all my tools/materials are in storage.
- Although you can purchase all the bits - they aren't very integrated, so there's a mains plug for the main unit, a plug for the air assist and yet another plug for the fan in the enclosure. And it's not possible to control the air assist from software unlike some other cutters.
We're (Mylo and me) are out tomorrow, it's should have been my late wife's birthday, and then on Saturday I'm making this year's Christmas cake, but hopefully I'll get to play with the cutter a bit more whilst that's in the oven - assuming I don't run out of plywood.
If people are interested I'll try to report back on progress ... until it all goes into storage :-(
Richard
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