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Anxiously wait for a week to get a DHL overnight from China, only to find my order messed up. :( 3.8mm diodes, 5.6mm hosts, missing driver boards.. I can't install 3.8mm diodes into 5.6mm hosts! and even if I could.. I paid for 3 drivers, got one. rant over.... Oh.. and I paid for brass hosts...

Anyone have a faster way to press diodes into modules?? If I had a CNC I'd just make a jig. Using a socket and pliers works, but I'd like a fast way to mass install diodes. Thanks..

Ok, so recently I scored 5 diodes, all identical 505nm (harvested, so I don't know the manufacture) , they were all in 12mm hosts and all have identical drivers. all diodes are operating at 5.5 volts 90-95Ma draw each. but one diode lases very bluish green. the other 4 diodes lase identical...

Hopefully exchanging ideas we get can spark creativity in others. How many of you out there have torn apart an RC car to get the servo systems out? used a CPU heat sink to cool a laser? used a cell phone charger to power a laser? set your wife's cut crystal on a record player and shined a...

If my not visiting the forum for 5 years has offended or angered anyone, I apologize. Hopefully there is some serious tech talk to be found...... Up front, I'm just too old to be interested in how many balloons a pointer can pop or how many matches one can light.. The physics and electronics...

I'm seeing these 10 watt NECSEL heads, but no specs on powering them, has anyone here ever made a build with these 10 watt heads?? Thanks.

Anyone else here use AT&T wireless? why does my "unlimited" $60 plan produce $200 phone bills?? Beware of AT&T wireless. they tell you one thing when you sign up, then grab you by the balls after. Just Google AT&T ripoff and see what folks are saying.

It's that time of year again! Every spring we burn off 14 acres of grass, got 1/2 of it done today. (My clothes stink now) Last years burn.....

Folks that's rather serious for a 15 year old to have to go through.... Post your get well wishes or e-cards here.

Here you guys go, Your own special boxing ring. Fire away!!!!

We have an aggression thread, how about a happy thread?? Every once in a while something positive has to happen to us right:yh: so this thread is for those special moments when life just seems right. Enjoy!

Got bored so I tossed a block of dry ice into a pail of water and broke out the beamage. Put the greenie directly onto the block of dry ice, it sizzled like grease in a frying pan. Turned on the 650nm spiro and projected directly into the fog, most of the shots did not turn out...

Since the original thread got closed, we don't seem to have a place to vent our general aggressions anymore. Please for the sake of the forum, and in the name of peace, This thread is only to vent whatever it is pissing you off THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FLAMING MEMBERS!! In other words, if...

Since it seems everyone is interested in my pictures, and it keeps derailing peoples laser threads, I felt it best to just start this one, and post my pictures here. One of my "other hobbies" is amateur photography, I say amateur because I have never been paid for a picture yet and I sometimes...

Of course I HAD to open it up.... First thing I plan to do is replace the <5mw 650nm module with my rayfoss 30mw green module. I contacted the manufacture and they no longer offer these, however I was told the retail was $100 when they did offer them. It makes all the usual patterns and it...

My first ever ban poll. This member is harassing people, he just got the aggression thread closed, condones drug use, defends junkies, and is nothing more than a troll looking for drama. Seems like every post made by BobH has derogatory remarks about other people, and he is "gunning" for...

Just wanted to share my rant.... Little puke "hired me" to do some board work, then filed a paypal dispute and forced his money back out. Paypal is ruthless, they sided with him. "Don't know why I was kicked off the board, just give back my money" AFTER I went to radio shack and...

A campy 1980's tv show about a holographic super hero cop. It ripped off "Tron" a bit, but was funny. Never saw a DVD set, probably never will.

After watching one of my all time favorite movies "Chain Reaction" (good thing DVD does not wear out) I though maybe I'd like to hear other peoples take on the "conspiracy" angle. Hydrogen is one of the most abundant and very renewable resources our planet has to offer us, separating water was...