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Re: color balance: The ordering of the lasers won't matter much except for whatever losses that may be incurred by the optics. What's going to matter is the power and divergence. There are many different power ratios to pick from (e.g. RGB = 4:1:9 for 638/520/462nm), but often it all depends...

After searching around, I found these thick bronze 1" washers at my local hardware store and they fit the kinematic mounts for 1" optics pretty well. I like that I don't have to glue the optics straight to the mount itself. The washer leaves about 0.5" diameter worth of space in the center...

You really shouldn't get goggles that cover the entire visible spectrum. It'll make it too hard to see what you're doing because they're trying to cover all the wavelengths. By the same token, they generally provide poor protection because they can't block everything and expect the user to be...

You should first see if the lens got dislodged or some water or crap got in there before dismantling the rest of the laser. It also sounds like you don't know about how these lasers are assembled in the first place; reading some more threads will help you understand what goes into these and...

Re: PERMANENT THREAD: Ebay& other internet FINDS of interest- read all the OP please Went for $66! What a steal!

For me at least, I don't think the G-1/G-2 lenses are worth the money compared to S-1 type lenses. They're good lenses, but a lot of their cost came from the fact that they were the only lens in town that passed that much light, and Laser66 was selling them for $25 each or something. Now with...

They'll have the same basic properties of the other lenes, except maybe the coating. I think they're just broadband from the AR coating appearance. It's reflecting some sort of light bluish tint, but not the dark blue of the AR coatings for red; no yellow tint like the AR coatings for short...

Those mounts on Techhood work okay. For a nicer setup you would probably want some 2-axis kinematic mirror mounts; sometimes you can find them on eBay for $20-30. For mounting the dichros to the flexure (Techhood-style) mounts, you'll just glue them to the mounts. It sounds somewhat low-tech...

There's really not much to say other than the efficiency you've already seen. All those G-1, G-2, G-9, S-1, whatever lenses are just 6.3mm lenses with short focal lengths and AR coatings. Most of the power "gain" is from using a single lens with a short focal length that allows the lens to...

Hmm, this sounds pretty good. I always like having tons of wire around. So the 24AWG is still quite flexible? At 4 cents a foot for 24AWG I'd probably be down for 500ft each of black and red (1000ft total) for $40.

Re: 520 <5mW PGL for sale. Wait, so the remaining PGL-III-A (this one) is $35, not $190 like in the topic post? Oh wait, that was for the 532nm, nevermind.

You can get some from Tomorrow Systems (site). If you contact him directly he might give you a better deal than the eBay price. I've gotten some cylindrical lenses from him and they're good quality. Shipping was pretty quick too. You'll need to buy some mounts too The ones from Techhood...

You're going to definitely want some goggles for this kind of thing, especially if you're trying to tweak the appearance just right. It'll protect your eyes and also make it easier to see what you're doing. Something to consider is buying a high-powered 520nm green laser instead of the 532nm...

What about the programs you have installed? Kudos to Microsoft if they really can pull of an in-place upgrade that cleanly.

I'll try it with my laptop, as I don't have much invested in that installation and it has 8.1 so I might as well spend time configuring Windows 10 instead of 8.1 with all its 8.x defects; I'll be waiting some time for upgrading my desktop though.. It has 5 or so years of tweaks and programs and...

Thanks for the tip! That Poxipol isn't available here, but I should be able to find some 5-10 min epoxy equivalent. I'm also glad that it can be removed if necessary!

Buy from DragonLasers, not Laserglow. Both DL and LG are just selling rebagged CNI lasers -- however, Laserglow marks up the price on their lasers a whole lot more. Better yet, I'd get one through the group buy that's being worked out in the Group Buy section. $340 for the 5mW 589nm "Rigel...

I need to mount some optics to metal parts, does anyone know what is the appropriate glue/epoxy used for this? It would also be nice if I could remove the optics/glue at a later time if necessary. If you have any insight, please let me know, thanks!

Koff: It's not a "warning" unless it's explicit or obvious about the result being a bad thing. That image is ambiguous and could be taken to mean that lasers are cool anti-air weaponry. I don't think it's a very appropriate avatar image as well. Nikos: Before these goggles are proclaimed to...

Better than $200 like the shops on eBay are selling them for though.