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Hydra Mac 8A (Gehl 2500) restoration... or "Oh No... What have I done?"
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<blockquote data-quote="vinito" data-source="post: 97122" data-attributes="member: 12954"><p>Some progress to report but I have a pleasant little detour this weekend. I took a chance and bought a cheap Chinese laser engraver/cutter this week and I'm playing with it a little today. They have come down below $300 on eBay for a 40W Co2 machine and as such, they have become extremely popular. Some folks have bad experiences with them but there are a ton of retrofits and upgrades you can do to them for small $$ too, so I figured even if it was problematic, I could make it work eventually. I've built a couple small CNC machines and a 3D printer before so I'm schooled up on that stuff if need be. But out of the box, this one appears to be fairly good already !! Only tried cutting through paper and a little engraving on various materials, so not much of a hard test yet. But one really cool thing (I think) to do with these is engraving anodized aluminum. It leaves crisp, white marks so on dark colors it just looks great.</p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/alum1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/alum1.jpg" alt=" photo alum1.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>That was just a first attempt experiment on some scrap anodized I had in a box.</p><p>I did this on a PCB scrap I had which has a green mask on it. It worked similar. So as you can see, I'll be able to make a clean new ID tag for the machine! The original is beat up, gouged and ripped but I was able to scan and redo it. I obviously wouldn't worry about it if I didn't have the stuff already for other reasons, but I think this will be a nice little touch for the machine. I'll show the "real" new tag once it's done.</p><p><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/TagPcb.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/TagPcb.jpg" alt=" photo TagPcb.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>Kinda fun.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vinito, post: 97122, member: 12954"] Some progress to report but I have a pleasant little detour this weekend. I took a chance and bought a cheap Chinese laser engraver/cutter this week and I'm playing with it a little today. They have come down below $300 on eBay for a 40W Co2 machine and as such, they have become extremely popular. Some folks have bad experiences with them but there are a ton of retrofits and upgrades you can do to them for small $$ too, so I figured even if it was problematic, I could make it work eventually. I've built a couple small CNC machines and a 3D printer before so I'm schooled up on that stuff if need be. But out of the box, this one appears to be fairly good already !! Only tried cutting through paper and a little engraving on various materials, so not much of a hard test yet. But one really cool thing (I think) to do with these is engraving anodized aluminum. It leaves crisp, white marks so on dark colors it just looks great. [URL='http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/alum1.jpg.html'][IMG alt=" photo alum1.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/alum1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] That was just a first attempt experiment on some scrap anodized I had in a box. I did this on a PCB scrap I had which has a green mask on it. It worked similar. So as you can see, I'll be able to make a clean new ID tag for the machine! The original is beat up, gouged and ripped but I was able to scan and redo it. I obviously wouldn't worry about it if I didn't have the stuff already for other reasons, but I think this will be a nice little touch for the machine. I'll show the “real” new tag once it's done. [URL='http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/TagPcb.jpg.html'][IMG alt=" photo TagPcb.jpg"]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/TagPcb.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Kinda fun. [/QUOTE]
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