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Details of ISSUE or REQUEST (Please be as specific as possible): @Airickjay was having problems with the laser tonight not engraving across a full 12x12”(?) job. I’m not sure of where it was on the bed or any of that, @Airickjay if you can provide any additional info that would help troubleshoot that’d be great.
@jody can you take a look tomorrow (assuming you’re planning to be in)? I’m wondering if it’s an alignment problem.
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It kept fading in a diagonal pattern on the acrylic. It appeared that it was going to eventually fade completely given the pattern of the etching. I stopped it when I realized it probably wasn’t going to be able to cut it.
@jody re-leveled the bed as it was obviously out of kilter and wasn’t helping anything.
We’ll need to do a full re-alignment, but the laser is currently usable. Large jobs, or jobs requiring a significant amount of precision may suffer until the re-alignment is complete.
We’re working on scheduling a time to do it this week.
Yep. I leveled the bed and repaired a bent bracket on Saturday. Neither fixed the issue but the bed is more level than it has ever been. So that’s good.
Last night, with a huge amount of help and direction from @millerajm, we realigned the laser. It now cuts fine across the entire bed. The kerf seems a bit much but that might mean we need to play with the focus.
There’s more fine tuning to be done but it’s much better.