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Confessions of a LPF addict

Well, I have a burn board in about every room in the house now.

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I'm at work as I post this. I guess that makes me an addict too. At least I'm not alone :)
 
My name is Matthew. I am a high school students with a VERY limited budget. Nonetheless, I continue to eat into my savings to continue my hobby, with no regrets.
I spend about 7 hours a week on the forum, and I love every second.

I check the forum throughout the school day, every period in fact.

My name is Mathew Morawiec... And I am happy to say that I am an addict of lasers, this forum, and sweet delicious beams :drool:
 
I've been addicted to the website for a while now...actually going on 7 years. :o

Although I don't post as much as I used to, I do read a lot of the new threads. I love seeing the new advances in laser diode technology, and I enjoy even more playing with the lasers :D

And how do I know that I'm an addict? I should be studying for my calculus quiz that is in a half hour but I am here instead. I don't think I'll ever break the addiction. :)
 
I'll admit - I've got it bad for low wattage gas lasers... real bad... like I lusted after the old 0.8mw metrologic HeNe in the Edmund Scientific catalog back in the 80's bad...

I built my first proper laser in college with my meager weekly paycheck from working in the computer lab - a 3mw HeNe tube and powersupply - I mounted the tube in some PCV and then it got stuffed in a closet when I got busy working.

fast forward to now and I'm checking the forum about every hour all day, and then running home to work on my optics lab with every free minute I have.
 
Okay, time to make a full confession. May God rest my soul.

Hello, my name is Isaac Teal and I am a laser addict. I have been addicted to this site off and on for 4 years or so now(occasionally I leave for a bit...you know, to recover from IFC*). I spend a large portion of my day either on LPF or working on designs for new lasers, as I am very much addicted to the host design process. I don't tell friends and family when I make a laser sale and I keep money in my Paypal account so that when I need to buy something nobody knows that I made an expenditure. I am fascinated with the wavelengths, and most of my lasers are worth more than 1 car payment. I budget lasers into my paychecks, and I make a portion of each disappear so that I can continue on my current goal. What is that exactly?

I want to develop my collection to all be centerpieces. I am going about this one laser at a time until I have a set of lasers with such ***y hosts that I would be unable to choose a favorite.

I have 88 dollars in my bank account.
I have 470 dollars in my paypal account.

Something about that seems wrong....but oh so right.

*IFC stands for "Insufficient Funds Complex"
 
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well, with the inflation of the dollar, it's wiser to buy stuff now than tomorrow when it costs more. you should only have a little more currency than you need, keep the rest in goods that don't loose their value. pretty sure laser dont qualify, but let's pretend they do. if your heat sink is big enough, just tell yourself you're investing in metals.

On that note, I've got some silver if anyone wants to melt it down and reform it into a cylinder for heat sinks and or hosts, let me know:crackup:

how would that be for crown piece, the best heat/electric transfer known to man, AND a precious metal host, which you could get engraved and inlayed with precious stones. just think, there are emeralds for green lasers, rubies for reds, saphires for blues, amethyst for 405s, etc etc.
 
I have one already in the works :) Although it won't help me move my 100oz bar
 
I was going to get 100oz bars, but thought I may want to sell them in smaller incriments, or just a few in an emergency, so I went with many more 10oz bars. crazy that silver is extracted from the earth at a 9:1 ratio to gold, has more industial use than gold, and yet gold is roughly 50X more valuable. one would think the value ratio would more closely resemble the ratio of extraction or larger, accounting for it's higher industrial demand, and if this happens, we'll be sittin' pretty. lets see, at current gold prices that would make silver worth around $133.33 per oz. (assuming a 1:9 ratio) I'd squeal with delight if that happened.

anyway, sorry about that threadjack. wannaburnstuff, (Issac?) make sure you show me this silver laser when finished. I want to see ingraved and inlayed (just kidding it's your laser). only question for me if it were to be mine is whether to go with pattern ingraving or likenesses of actual things/scenery. I'm imagining all kinds of possibilities now. I'd probably go with images/scenery and try to incorporate the inlayed stones into the image

I know you've seen this WBS, but for the benefit of others:

http://laserpointerforums.com/f45/solid-silver-520nm-build-pic-heavy-83604-2.html

http://laserpointerforums.com/f65/solid-sterling-445nm-77307-3.html
 
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I am planning a patterning and inlayed gems. It will be silver and amethyst with a 900mW 405nm from Lazeerer.
 
wow, cant wait to see it. do those 3.8mm 405nm diodes always hit that high? does he sell them all the time? do they need cooling to hit that? why doesn't DTR stock 'em? If 900mW from one with no active cooling is no problem and the price is right, I need to hit him up. did you have the amethyst idea before i mentioned it? I know you've had silver on your mind for a while
 
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