We landed a huge aluminum job in our shop, the first real aluminum production we're going to run. This led to our discussion on how to prevent a thermite reaction when switching back to our typical HR P&O runners. The obvious answer is to clean the scrap trays and empty the dust collector. What...
I'm running a 4kw fiber laser and we just got an order for 11 ga aluminum. Our customer is making tanks and these parts are all exposed. Our initial test run of the material left dross that the owner wasn't happy with. Can anybody help me with some tricks for cutting a burr free aluminum?
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I'm waiting to hear back from Amada California. But here are my alarms. Right now nobody knows what the root cause of this is. When the machine is idle I can clear the alarms, As soon the beam is turned on these alarms shoot up. No beam = No production. Does anybody know anything that could...
Last year my company bought a new Fiber laser from Amada. I have spent my entire life running CO2 lasers. We are approaching 1500 beam on hours and I wanted some feedback on the lense life compared to the CO2. Both the 190mm and the 220mm have been replaced once. The 220 probably could have gone...
I'm running an Amada FLCAJ 4020 4k fiber laser laser with a 10 cell tower. Whenever I load light gauge bundles into the tower the the rollers used to line the bundle up on the pins heavily dents the bottom sheet, sometimes the bottom 2 sheets if I'm loading 20 ga. Has anybody worked with this...
