Phaser1966
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Hi,
I’m new to the forum but have owned various lasers (red 650 & 635, green, blue). I’m also and electrical engineer by profession so not completely clueless. But I never tried to disassemble one of my lasers. My latest purchase is a supposed 2w blue pointer, and it seems to perform as expected.
Maybe I watched too many youtube videos, because I already tried to take it apart and am now stuck and am not sure what to do next. I just wanted to study it with thoughts of a potential upgrade. I got it partially apart but haven’t been able to get the internals out containing the diode module. Does anyone recognize the generic type of laser that can give me some advice? I got it partly unscrewed and it stuck. Tried to abort and screw it back in and it got stuck again. Now it looks like the diode is pushing out the top from trying to screw it back in, and it won’t go in any further. When I reassemble like it is, it now won’t focus to a dot since it’s closer to the lens. My thought was to explore putting in a NDB7A75 and new driver to get closer to 5w. Been trying to be gentle on it using vice jaw protectors, but it keeps slipping. Wasn’t sure how hard to force it.
I know, I’m an idiot for breaking my new toy, but mainly trying to learn.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
I’m new to the forum but have owned various lasers (red 650 & 635, green, blue). I’m also and electrical engineer by profession so not completely clueless. But I never tried to disassemble one of my lasers. My latest purchase is a supposed 2w blue pointer, and it seems to perform as expected.
Maybe I watched too many youtube videos, because I already tried to take it apart and am now stuck and am not sure what to do next. I just wanted to study it with thoughts of a potential upgrade. I got it partially apart but haven’t been able to get the internals out containing the diode module. Does anyone recognize the generic type of laser that can give me some advice? I got it partly unscrewed and it stuck. Tried to abort and screw it back in and it got stuck again. Now it looks like the diode is pushing out the top from trying to screw it back in, and it won’t go in any further. When I reassemble like it is, it now won’t focus to a dot since it’s closer to the lens. My thought was to explore putting in a NDB7A75 and new driver to get closer to 5w. Been trying to be gentle on it using vice jaw protectors, but it keeps slipping. Wasn’t sure how hard to force it.
I know, I’m an idiot for breaking my new toy, but mainly trying to learn.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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