That pretty much covers my concerns... Have available a 6k CO2 Laser.
It's thin, maybe 3/16" thick. I've read "High Purity" and that seems good to me when Laser cutting.
Also read high Nickel, not sure if that's a good thing or not.
Anyone have any experience?
Anyone ever put 387 on a laser and try to cut it?
looking to cut 3/8" thick. Below is what I found for Chemicals:
Gr. 5
C 0.10
Mn 0.30-0.60
P 0.025
S 0.025
Si 0.5
Cr 2.75-3.25
Mo 0.90-1.10
V -
any info would be great.
Thanks
Here's what one of my Maint. guys had written in his notebook from the beginning of the problems:
Symptoms
Fault: Excitation module error path 4
Finding: water in the vacuum area of the laser
Caused by 2 possible locations, Resonator plate and the heat exchanger
Vacuum pump full of water
After the 24 hour burn, we cleaned the optics, Not much of anything on the cleaning plugs.
Put it back together and it seems in good shape. Didn't replace any optics, just cleaned them and hope...
Longer burn might be the key...
We've also made a few grates from SS that are about a half inch taller than the stock ones. Assuming you cut your own grates, make the SS ones taller, and only replace every third one. Should still give you enough stability with less points of contact, and less grates to change.
Also I made...
Krug...
We've spoke before, you've given me some Repair tips for both my 5.2k and 6k Bystars. This is a new situation, we didn't talk about the leak in the heat exchanger before, so it sounds like this might be a recurring theme on 6k's.
We're at about 7000 hours of beam on time, Resonator...
Thanks Again for the info, all sounds realistic to do and shouldn't kill us right now.
yes it was the Aluminum Plate between the upper and lower resonator.... I wouldn't recommend paying for that service call out of your personal checkbook.
I'm going to meet with my techs today and feed them...
Thanks for the info. We have a 5.2 k with Glass Tubes, and the 6k is an RF resonator.
I don't cut hardly any alu, and it's all under 3/8" thick. Water jet is our option for that material because it's available.
Also we don't do over 3/4" SS, again WJ is available and acceptable.
This is...
We have a pair of Bystronic ByStars, circa 2006ish. Having some issue with the optics going bad in the resonator, turns out we have some debris in there and need to purge it pretty well.
One of the techs we spoke to suggested a sensor on the output/end mirror coupler. I'm all for sensors...
we used it in the past rarely, most of the operators didn't like the option, but with this option it might be a better idea. for most of the programming we use Pro-Nest, which was MTC, and now Hypertherm I think. I know i can do it in Bysoft, but we don't do much programming in bysoft...
Anyone have any good suggestions? We've used dead blow Hammers in the past to knock out the less than perfect parts. The ones with a little slag or dross on the bottom, usually 5/8" and up stainless has this issue. believe it or not we had a guy hurt his hand using a hammer, the hand he was...
