All materials commonly welded by conventional means can be easily laser welded. In addition, difficult to join materials such as high carbon stainless steels and titanium may be successfully laser ...

This may seem like a no-brainer, but it’s actually pretty easy to modify your CNC machine to hold a vinyl cutter blade in order to do stencils or even cut out vinyl logos! [Jouni] designed a ...

Typically, a laser head or fiber optic cable is mounted on the beam guidance ... When normal Q is restored, a large pulse of power is produced by laser cutting machines and laser welding machines. In ...

[Jeshua Lacock] from 3DTOPO owns a large-format CNC (4’x8′, or 1.2×2.4 m), that he strongly feels is lacking laser-cutting capabilities. The frame is there, and a 150 W CO2 laser tube has ...

So now the machine is set up, it's time to get cutting. Laser cutters get extremely hot, so as it cuts, the machine cools the material by blowing compressed air. Depending on the material ...

Of these processes cutting demands the most power – usually a beam of more than 1 kW. “Laser diodes, and solid, or fibre, lasers are the main technologies used in manufacturing today ...

The annexed engraving is a perspective view of a machine for cutting paper, pasteboard, c, for which a patent was granted on I the 19th of last July (1853) to H. J. Oerter, ? of Bethlehem ...

While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser cutters -- he also loves to play board games and tabletop RPGs. Expertise 3D printers ...

An accidental break in an optical fiber, typically due to new construction in the area. The telcos that laid the first fiber are more subject to fiber cuts than subsequent carriers such as Qwest ...

The pure-high-even-order dispersion bound solitons complexes, which build up in high-order dispersion management ultra-fast fiber laser, are revealed both theoretically and experimentally ...

Focusing on packaged processed foods that maintain carb-to-fiber ratios of at least as low as 10-to-1 or ideally 5-to-1 can ...