He built this in the 80s? Isn’t this the laser assembly for “Honey I Shrunk the Kids”?

Posted at 11:54 pm on Dec 24th, 2006 by Brandon

You should also check out John Doran’s website and his CO2 laser

http://www.timefracture.org/

Posted at 3:25 am on Dec 25th, 2006 by Vaelen

Where are your lathe playings?

It must have been months now since you got that baby

I realize that you also have another baby of about the same vintage, but you should learn to share you time more fairly ;-)

On much the same note, does anyone have links to linux programs capable of turning circuit designs into CNC milling patterns, that would rock.

Posted at 12:59 am on Dec 26th, 2006 by Will

Actually, I remember a co2 laser design from a book entitled “build your own laser, phaser, and ion ray gun” published in 1983…. and I still have a copy of it :) also has some other neat devices like a multi million watt pulsed power supply.

Amazon still sells it http://www.amazon.com/Build-Laser-Phaser-Working-Projects/dp/0830606041/sr=8-1/qid=1167158793/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4660672-7214347?ie=UTF8&s=books

Posted at 12:47 pm on Dec 26th, 2006 by Jessie

If you’re going to build any sort of laser (HeNe, CO2, Argon, Dye) check out sam’s laser faq first, *tons* of information.
http://repairfaq.ece.drexel.edu/sam/lasersam.htm

Posted at 3:05 pm on Dec 26th, 2006 by calvin

Hi Will O’Brien,
About your mini mill, you might want to check out, if you haven’t already:
http://www.cnczone.com/

CNCzone has forums in which a lot of people moding X2s for CNC. The X2s and X3s, are reputed to be good mills, once cleaned and tweaked.

They have a nice site with mini-mill and mini-lathe notes setup and comments. They also have a review of the belt-drive kit.
http://www.mini-lathe.com

You might want to check out the X2 belt drive kits. I saw a second belt drive kit on cnczone, too.

As far as lasers, SAM’s laser FAQs is probably the best laser start here page out there:
http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/laserfaq.htm#faqtoc

Posted at 6:22 am on Dec 27th, 2006 by Brenda Make

*aah! my eyes!*

Looks good, but the lack of dimensions for the tubes and such means that you’ll have to experiment a little with the voltages and such. All the more fun, eh? For the power supply, you could use a flyback transformer from an old CRT. Using a KSE13009 transistor from Fairchild in the flyback circuit, you’d get about 18-20kv. Good luck to whomever tries this.

Posted at 10:07 pm on Dec 27th, 2006 by HaX80r

CNCzone has forums in which a lot of people moding X2s for CNC. The X2s and X3s, are reputed to be good mills, once cleaned and tweaked.

Posted at 4:45 pm on Jan 3rd, 2007 by real estate bulgaria

Hey all, another good forum is:
http://www.cncinformation.com/CNCBlog/

I haven’t checked around to see specifics but there’s plenty of info there in the forum that may be helpful.

Posted at 1:40 pm on Dec 9th, 2007 by Ivan Irons

thanks… but i think it’s little hard to do it.

thanks

Posted at 9:30 pm on Jul 4th, 2008 by تحميل

hello all

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Posted at 9:36 am on Oct 18th, 2008 by sx2