There's a hole in my printer dear Lisa ...
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:08 am
Hi All
Just thought I'd make a public note about my utter crass stupidity in the hope that I might not embarass myself again and that others may learn from it !
I aligned my laser again at the weekend, paying particular attention to centrality. However, for some obscure reason, I didn't go back and check the four corners of the table (make a test list !). At the top RHS, the beam was 15mm off centre (over 1200mm) - consequently, it was missing the head altogether
I was testing the laser on a long job of an aircraft fuselage/formers.
And you can guess what the beam was hitting because the skins have not been fitted yet - my workshop printer - and it is about 2 metres from the laser head !!!. The only reason I noticed it was because I was coding on my laptop - my bare arm was in the way and I wondered why it was getting sore ! I noticed the printer because of the burning plastic smell (I also noticed a lack of the 'sssssss' coming from the laser head). To compound it, I just happened to have put on a new microfleece jerkin because the workshop was a bit cool - yes, two nice burn marks in the new fleece that I hadn't even noticed! I'm 'lucky', because I wear glasses and I also have been wearing an ugly orange pair of uvex safety goggles - if I had only been wearing my glasses, and bent over, I would have had the full beam at the LH corner of my eye
Nice sexy uvex goggles, thank you !!!
Take care with your laser.
Keep safe.
Neil
Just thought I'd make a public note about my utter crass stupidity in the hope that I might not embarass myself again and that others may learn from it !
I aligned my laser again at the weekend, paying particular attention to centrality. However, for some obscure reason, I didn't go back and check the four corners of the table (make a test list !). At the top RHS, the beam was 15mm off centre (over 1200mm) - consequently, it was missing the head altogether
I was testing the laser on a long job of an aircraft fuselage/formers.
And you can guess what the beam was hitting because the skins have not been fitted yet - my workshop printer - and it is about 2 metres from the laser head !!!. The only reason I noticed it was because I was coding on my laptop - my bare arm was in the way and I wondered why it was getting sore ! I noticed the printer because of the burning plastic smell (I also noticed a lack of the 'sssssss' coming from the laser head). To compound it, I just happened to have put on a new microfleece jerkin because the workshop was a bit cool - yes, two nice burn marks in the new fleece that I hadn't even noticed! I'm 'lucky', because I wear glasses and I also have been wearing an ugly orange pair of uvex safety goggles - if I had only been wearing my glasses, and bent over, I would have had the full beam at the LH corner of my eye
Nice sexy uvex goggles, thank you !!!
Take care with your laser.
Keep safe.
Neil