Sounds good @unknowndomain - what time are you thinking? Sometime in the late afternoon would be perfect.
3pm was suggested.
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I’ll be there for 3pm.
Me too!
Okay so if the laser cutter is up and running again then we want to join to Maker Space asap! Is there a scheduled laser session for January?
I’ll set up a date for training in the next day or so. Either Friday 15th, or Tuesday 19th.
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FYI: Following further experimentation the other day, non-laser grade wood of any kind is banned, also we recommending with PMMA (Acrylic/Perspex/Plexiglas) that you don’t cut for more than 10-15 minutes continuously without the door open to ventilate as the fumes are not extracting as well as we’d want.
This is pretty broad. Could you provide more detail? Engraving hardwood should be fine, no?
It is exactly this: No, non-laser grade wood.
We can do experiments with a maintainer there on new materials, but the amount of smoke that ended up in the room was unacceptable.
I’ve edited the wiki post accordingly
Yes, too broad. An emergency measure?
EDIT: a plan of action with a timeframe would be in a order here.
So hardwood such as walnut or oak is banned unless it’s ‘laser grade’? How do you propose we grow laser grade trees? What exactly would laser grade pure wood be exactly?
@peter_hellyer I would be up for a reinduction on these dates if possible.
EDIT: Removed personal details on public forum and mentioned the user being refered to.
Thanks everyone for the hugely helpful response, how about seeing that this is an issue and offering to help rather than complaining and suggesting I write some kind of action plan…
The point of banning this is obviously that until there is a solution its not safe to do it… The solution is likely as Joe pointed out the other day, to replace the extractor on the laser cutter when it gets moved, and put in a small chimney to blow the extracted fumes out, rather than trying to filter them.
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You went straight to ‘it’s banned’. It’s not surprising that you didn’t get a helpful response since you provided no information on what led you to this decision.
If you want a discussion by all means start a discussion. I’m completely up for that and can talk about my experience with using solid wood in the cutter.
How can we give useful replies without anything to go on?
“Following further experimentation the other day, non-laser grade wood of any kind is banned.”
What experiments? With what results?
Nobody is demanding a detailed action plan from you personally, but without any supporting information, this feels like a overbearing ban out of nowhere.
I give, up, please can someone else look after the Laser Cutter, I have enough to be doing looking after amount other things, being a trustee, building a new website, new membership system, maintaining the access control, cctv, internet and wi-fi.
Don’t be like that Tom. Your work is valued and appreciated - and I should know more than anyone.
It’s just hard to engage properly when you didn’t provide any supporting information.
May I make a friendly suggestion that the trustees discuss amongst themselves notices before posting or at least bouncing it off one other person to make sure the intended mood is portrayed correctly. This should go for all (at)member posts.
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I can look after the laser cutter if you like. If that’s ok then let me know what the responsibilities entail and we can do a handover or whatever is required next time we’re both in.