Now I get to try to bring that damn laser over the border. Yay…
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Please record your conversation with the border guards while your explain what you are bringing in…
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Or, No?
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You should not have a problem have problem crossing the border. You are bringing in a part to repair a machine.
@Rob_MacKenzie - i wasn’t think about any legal or such thing… more just the humour of you explaining that you are bringing a friggin laser into the country…
This thread might be useful to support getting the Tube back to Canada if there are some questions at the border?
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Laser tube looking good
It’s here in seattle
Tracking shows it delivered by 10:30
talked to shipping guy at the building, he’ll let me know when it’s here
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woo! Awesome thanks Rob.
Yesterday @JDMc and I installed the new new tube, did a full alignment, and cleaned everything as well as we could (yuck). Today we did some power level tests and cleaned up our huge mess.
I’m happy to report that the laser is back online!
I’ll post a more detailed post mortem in the next day or so.
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Woooo! THanks @lukecyca and @jdmc! That is awesome. Also thank you Rob
for picking up the tube and bringing it back across the border. You guys
rock.
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again thx rob for picking up the tube
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Seriously you guys have been nothing short of amazing!
Just a two photos from this two day installation and maintenance.
Jake cleaning the laser grill.
Luke working on the internals.
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wow, thanks for all the hard work, @lukecyca and @JDMc
so it’s the tube and not the power supply afterall?
Sorry for the rando replies earlier, but thanks for the awesome work!!
In the event anyone wondered what happened to the newish (but broken) laser tube…
It looked like a piece of art so I’m going to mount it on a stand that we can attach to the wall in the Space somewhere…
I’ll also add some led lighting (144 LED WS2811) and an ESP-01 based controller (a PartyCat if they ever become available) so it can be lit up and possibly remote controlled…
I’m working on the base but here is a video of some initial testing:
Nothing I like better than starting another project…
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wow! that’s so awesome!
woahhhhh! So cool!!!
This laser that can’t laser kinda looks like it till lasers