Hello everyone!
I'm Jeff from Dallas, TX.
My first experience with a laser was in high school (1978) and it was a HeNe Spectra -Physics low power, very expensive type. As I recall we lit a cigarette with a match so that we could make smoke to see the beam. Wow- fascinating!
Fast forward to mid 1980's and I'm at the DFW electronics swap meet. Yes the good old days when it was on the east side of downtown at Ross ave. Someone had a bunch of Pioneer laser disc players for sale and I bought one. I got it home and took out the laser assembly powered it up, hooked the galvos up to my stereo and made squiggly lines on the wall. None of my friends were impressed, but I knew there was a light show or something I could do with this laser. Well work, life, etc took over and I put the laser in a box and into storage. I still have that laser and a few others that I've acquired (salvaged) throughout the years. I like to go to surplus sales and university auctions. I recently bought a CO2 laser that was used for heart surgery. I had seen a few posts where people had repurposed cosmetic lasers for other uses. I didn't have a lot of info on the heart laser before I bought it but I was hoping it had an off the shelf laser and power supply inside. Well I got it to my garage and it booted right up and in test mode it worked as expected. The log book that came with it showed less than a dozen surgeries and the computer interface showed approx 150 pulses. Wow what a deal-it had hardly been used! I wanted to make this into a laser cutter/cnc router/3d printer but when I got inside it was all custom designed. I was looking for something that was mass produced and would have had a lot of information available that I could remove and use for my own purpose. Well needless to say this hardare is way beyond my abilities to figure out. I would like to sell this machine and reinvest in a stock laser cutter. If anyone is interested in more info about this laser message me.
I'm Jeff from Dallas, TX.
My first experience with a laser was in high school (1978) and it was a HeNe Spectra -Physics low power, very expensive type. As I recall we lit a cigarette with a match so that we could make smoke to see the beam. Wow- fascinating!
Fast forward to mid 1980's and I'm at the DFW electronics swap meet. Yes the good old days when it was on the east side of downtown at Ross ave. Someone had a bunch of Pioneer laser disc players for sale and I bought one. I got it home and took out the laser assembly powered it up, hooked the galvos up to my stereo and made squiggly lines on the wall. None of my friends were impressed, but I knew there was a light show or something I could do with this laser. Well work, life, etc took over and I put the laser in a box and into storage. I still have that laser and a few others that I've acquired (salvaged) throughout the years. I like to go to surplus sales and university auctions. I recently bought a CO2 laser that was used for heart surgery. I had seen a few posts where people had repurposed cosmetic lasers for other uses. I didn't have a lot of info on the heart laser before I bought it but I was hoping it had an off the shelf laser and power supply inside. Well I got it to my garage and it booted right up and in test mode it worked as expected. The log book that came with it showed less than a dozen surgeries and the computer interface showed approx 150 pulses. Wow what a deal-it had hardly been used! I wanted to make this into a laser cutter/cnc router/3d printer but when I got inside it was all custom designed. I was looking for something that was mass produced and would have had a lot of information available that I could remove and use for my own purpose. Well needless to say this hardare is way beyond my abilities to figure out. I would like to sell this machine and reinvest in a stock laser cutter. If anyone is interested in more info about this laser message me.
and welcome.
