Laser Cleaned, Tested, Serviced
May 27, 2014
I won’t be able to run the laser this late and be able to go to work tomorrow! I will likely come to the lab during lunch for about 10 minute and see if I can cut or engrave some things!
I spent an huge amount of time cleaning and fixing this machine!
A great deal of acrylic had accumulated in the exhaust. It took some doing to remove it all!

I expect the flow to be much better for the exhaust without all of the accumulation.
Filthy Work!
I have the Mill/Drill/Lathe combo working well. I still can’t find the collet. I can’t find the endmill set either. I don’t want to beleive I threw them out They may be at my friend’s house from my long stay with him.
All the ways are lubricated. It feels like “a well-oiled machine”!
The Miniature lathe, I use for fine parts, seems to have a problem with the radial feed. Ill have to fix that!
Here is an home made angle encoder disk from before I packed up the lab.