Lazor Blades by plasma2002

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Lazor Blades

plasma2002

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Published on May 23, 2012

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Stop letting your honeycomb table get in the way of your laser projects. The Lazor Blades are a type of small, modular, knife blade "puck" for your laser cutter, letting you move them around however you need for your project.

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The Lazor Blades should hold any standard razor blades in its arms, but I have been using "Single Edge Scraper Blades", made by Allied, part number 64330. Basically, if your blades are meant to fit into safety scrapers, then they should be usable by Lazor Blades.

They have only been cut out of 1/8" MDF so far, so if you use another material, please leave feedback for others on what you experience.

Since the piece fits about half-way up on the actual razor blade, it DOES get marred by the laser beam, but by the time the beam hits the Lazor Blade, the beam is unfocused enough to not cut through it (well, at least on my 40W laser). I personally see these as a consumable, since they can be reproduced quickly and easily.

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stevecooley on March 18, 2013 said:

I tried using these cut from 1/8" acrylic, and the arms snapped off while trying to seat the blades. :-\ I tried several times... it's just not flexible enough. Hardboard/MDF is probably the best material.

tekati on January 9, 2013 said:

Made a derivative of these and posted it here on thingiverse. See http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... yea they may make you nervous and you may not want to use them in a production environment where you have not so bright people running the laser but if its your machine and you control the environment and you don't have kids to worry about I highly recommend these little guys. They make a huge difference. Not only can you see your work much more clearly but you don't have the edge of the honeycomb table to deal with either. Once you use them you wont want to go back to using the honeycomb table.

thantik on September 3, 2012 said:

Tried these at my lab and they made _everyone_ nervous as hell. I believe the smirk on the face of this thing is basically a "lol, if you're stupid enough to actually make these, you deserve what's coming to you"