I am a terrible wood worker.
My days of angled cut wood on a table saw are OVER.
Check this thing out.
All the pieces fit together like Lego. Little bit of glue, some Brad nails, and some veneer, good to go. I made some crazy interlocking braces with this too.
My days of angled cut wood on a table saw are OVER.
Check this thing out.
All the pieces fit together like Lego. Little bit of glue, some Brad nails, and some veneer, good to go. I made some crazy interlocking braces with this too.
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We haven't tried MDF yet. Cuts through 12mm plywood like butter.
Was able to cut through 3/4" solid maple but we had to go 3mm/s. Still cut it though!
Took like a whole week to get it dialed in and cutting a perfect 90 degrees
I admit: I'm a little envious. 😢
It probably wasn't a bargain.....😳
It probably wasn't a bargain.....😳
$7,700.
If you have enough air assist it would
It does not catch fire with proper settings
It's was on sale for $7,700. We needed it for other things. It's not just for wood.
We need it to engrave placards for electrical enclosures and test and measurement racks. We also will be using it to cut out kaisen foam for projects. Oh, and we found it can cut acrylic so we will be using it to cut the finger guard barriers instead of having to order them.
Our old one was 8"x10". We quickly outgrew that. This is 53"x35"
So you first need to saw a 4'x8' sheet of plywood into 3 pieces to fit it in the bed of the Omtec Pronto 60 before you start burning it.
6mm (~1/4inch) per second speed on Baltic Birch plywood, about 1/3 the speed of a decent table saw.
Compared to ~10 minutes for setting up a decent table saw, if it needs any adjustment.
I don't see any provisions for angling the workbed:
Can you make angled cuts with the Omtec Pronto 60?
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Do you have to use laser ply or will standard stuff do? The laser ply I saw was not very dense, I wouldn't want it for a speaker.
I just have them rip it at Home Depot. I get 4 35x53" pieces of wood and then 4 more strips that also fit.
You cannot angle it. But my table saw sucks so I could never get a proper 90. Then the chuck would always move so I'd end up with angles there. I'm telling u, I'm a bad workworkee. That's what I meant by angled cuts.
The Z axis does move. You can make it move after each pass.
Difference is I just start the machine and walk away. I get to cut the wood while I'm at work. Also, we have sensitive electronic equipment in the shop so cutting wood inside has been banned (by me). This means I have to go outside. This is Chicago, it's either 100 degrees or it's 0 degrees
This thing cuts 12mm.ply at 10mm/s at only 70% power. That's pretty quick.
Nah, it just cuts regular ply. You don't need that crappy laser ply. Idk what the difference is but we even cut regular ply with our little 60w laser. The thickest we ever cut with that was 3/8"
100%. I've been using a laser to cut my foam gaskets for speakers for years. That's one of the first things we figured out it could do.
Perfectly dimensional gaskets, everytime. I've made then as thin as 1.5mm rings. Perfect.
Oh, and let's not forget that there are around 110 holes cut into all of the bracing. You're not doing that with a table saw or a hole saw in any timely manner.