×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

.125 aluminum on a 1500 watt laser

.125 aluminum on a 1500 watt laser

.125 aluminum on a 1500 watt laser

(OP)
This is my first time posting on here, hopefully someone can help. I have a '90 Mazak TX-48 1500 watt laser. I've been cutting various
cold rolled steel thicknesses with good results and even .062 aluminum. I'm not having any luck with .125 aluminum with this cutting
condition;
M50
M20
M32
M22
M50
G82P1300Q500R90
G04X1.5
M50
G04X1.0
G82P1300Q500R65F12
G04X1.0
M99
%
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Ron

RE: .125 aluminum on a 1500 watt laser

I run a 89 mazak laser path that is also a 1500 watt. We cut .125" aluminum quite a bit with no problems. I would start with at least 1300 watts but run it contiuous wave (100% duty) with the feed at around 30-35 ipm. Other than that I use a standard 1.5mm nozzle with at least 130 psi. Nitrogen assist gas is prefered but oxygen seems to be good enough for me. I also use a standard focus which may not be the most optimum set up but this gets the job done for me as well. If I remember correctly 5000 or 6000 series aluminum is all we run too, so I would check to make sure the grade of material you are running is ok to laser cut. Hope this helps.

RE: .125 aluminum on a 1500 watt laser

(OP)
I will definitely give this a try tomorrow, thank you.

RE: .125 aluminum on a 1500 watt laser

(OP)
Thank you again fab3, the numbers that you provided worked great!

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources