I HAD a decanning tool and LOVED IT!!!! i saved SO many 16x reds and PHR that had broken windows, about 2 months back, i bought a lot of 16x reds (15 pcs) and PHR's (5pcs) all of them simply had a smashed, or missing window.
I decanned them all, and 12 out of the 15 reds worked GREAT, and all the PHR's survived! they focus a bit differently now, a few had strange beam outputs, probably from being knocked around.
But this tool is AWSOME, if i remember right, you can de-can a diode, and allow the lens to get closer to the actual emission point. never had a Laserbee back then, so i couldnt tell you if they got more power out of them this way or not, but i've hard in certain scenarios, a de-canned diode is desireable. maybe even necisarry, ecspecially if using special optics. mayne you have a real good lens of some kind, but you cant get it close enough to the emmision point (sort of how some acrylic lenses need the ring removed for blu-ray diodes, or they wont focus all the way to infinity) this would solve your issue, as well as possibly upping the power output.
But as someone above mentioned, it makes the inner parts of the diode succeptable to dust and whatnot, as all the guts are exposed. i think thats all the can is originaly for, to keep particulate matter, and other debris out.
Someone should snag this soon before it's gone, for $IPPED thats a steal! i've seen $300 de-canners before, and they cost so much because they decanned all sizes of diodes, and this one does the same thing!!! big money saver if your in the market. and these things last too, the blades are quite hard to ware out, never had an issue with mine, but i sold it a few months back, now im wishing i hadnt
Best of luck, hope it sells friend, i think Kenom could get the most use out of it, he does allot of work with diodes, more than most of us i would assume.
Tyler - Dark Lasers
