I came across this great video and channel as a result of a UA-cam suggestion. Hats off to you for your guts and general attitude. This stuff is not for everyone but for those with the capability who may be considering such a path yours is a very lucid description and analysis. I bought an older Syil X4 mill which I found needed some attention after I got it home. Like you I know I will get it going and I could not afford to get into this any other way. Your comments about layout, wiring, software, documentation etc of course apply to something made back then. However you are clearly showing how to turn the amazing productivity of China to your advantage with a little of your own know how and enterprise. As a result you are creating employment instead of unemployment. Kudos to you.
Wow, I'm very happy for you, Gary! Looks like a nice machine and I am SURE you will get it all figured out. Can't wait to see what you will be making with it!! Congrats!!
Man, this is super cool! Very interesting seeing you go thru the learning curve and evolve into the nice work it's capable of. I'm sure you'll do some awesome parts with it.
Just noticed your TruCut machine in the background. Loved those. Was our first CNC Plasma Table 9 years ago. That was a GREAT company. Sad they closed down.
Nice machine you got there. I been running laser's for years now first was a Trumpf 2500 co2 laser now a Mazak 4k fiber full automation with sheet loader and unloader. You can't beat the cut quality of a laser. I'm looking into getting a plasma table for personal use in my garage to start out with still looking for the right one. Seen your trucut G3 plasma I'm very impressed with it. Thanks for your videos and all your explanations of everything. If you have any questions with any cutting conditions in the tech table I may be able to help you out some.
Thanks for all your videos. We bought our first CNC Fiber Laser. 3kW w. the typical China setup. Ours is the Au3Tech S2000 System/Software. Almost done finishing install and setup. (Chiller coming in a bit late). I am the kind of guy who will never give up until it works and we operated and built our own Plasma Tables. We also have a bunch of robots for which we built our own arm end tools. So, hopefully we get this going just well. We already got the laser welding down (handheld 2kW) and love it. As everything, once you learn the stuff, it seems simple. As always the devil is in the details. Wondering if you have any info on Au3tech software ect. We bought your other videos on your website and hope to extrapolate info from those to the Au3Tech software. Rather than re-inventing the wheel. Possible we will do a Au3Tech video once we have it all down and go into daily production and after we gather some real life experience. We do have experience with China Imports and I have been traveled gone there. There are some great companies to deal with and of course there are the scammers. We dealt with China over 15 years ago, and things changed dramatically. They learned a lot. The overall machine built quality on the frame is good. Its the details you have to rework a bit. Sloppy wiring, missing screws, stuff like that. Our machine came mostly fully assembled. BUT as you said, some electrical connections they forgot to tighten screws ect, so basically we reworkled and also double checked all the wiring and made our own wiring diagram. The biggest challenge are the poorly translated manuals for all the components. We had to download all the manuals from all the suppliers (cutting head, MCC, Proportional Valve ect.). Also, ours came with a Chinese Windows. We simply wiped the hard drive / popped a new harddrive (SDD) in and installed a new Windows 7 Version. Some of our videos of the robot stuff here.
I think everyone in the diy community would like you to stop calling it a diy laser cutter because you did not build it. I own a cnc plasma cutter that I assembled but I don’t call it a diy cnc
Great video, thanks for making it! I'm looking at fiber lasers now and hope to be buying one in the next couple of months. Trying to figure out if I can live with a 1KW and trying to figure out what brand to get. Just joined your Facebook group and am wading through all the info there...looks like it'll take awhile!
For anyone wanting to see it cut, here is a more recent video
I came across this great video and channel as a result of a UA-cam suggestion. Hats off to you for your guts and general attitude. This stuff is not for everyone but for those with the capability who may be considering such a path yours is a very lucid description and analysis. I bought an older Syil X4 mill which I found needed some attention after I got it home. Like you I know I will get it going and I could not afford to get into this any other way. Your comments about layout, wiring, software, documentation etc of course apply to something made back then. However you are clearly showing how to turn the amazing productivity of China to your advantage with a little of your own know how and enterprise. As a result you are creating employment instead of unemployment. Kudos to you.
Wow, I'm very happy for you, Gary! Looks like a nice machine and I am SURE you will get it all figured out. Can't wait to see what you will be making with it!! Congrats!!
Many thanks for sharing your experience. I got my 1000 W machine in December 2016. I have been using it daily since then
Man, this is super cool! Very interesting seeing you go thru the learning curve and evolve into the nice work it's capable of. I'm sure you'll do some awesome parts with it.
Just noticed your TruCut machine in the background. Loved those. Was our first CNC Plasma Table 9 years ago. That was a GREAT company. Sad they closed down.
Looks incredible Gary.
Nice machine you got there. I been running laser's for years now first was a Trumpf 2500 co2 laser now a Mazak 4k fiber full automation with sheet loader and unloader. You can't beat the cut quality of a laser. I'm looking into getting a plasma table for personal use in my garage to start out with still looking for the right one. Seen your trucut G3 plasma I'm very impressed with it. Thanks for your videos and all your explanations of everything. If you have any questions with any cutting conditions in the tech table I may be able to help you out some.
Thanks for all your videos. We bought our first CNC Fiber Laser. 3kW w. the typical China setup. Ours is the Au3Tech S2000 System/Software. Almost done finishing install and setup. (Chiller coming in a bit late). I am the kind of guy who will never give up until it works and we operated and built our own Plasma Tables. We also have a bunch of robots for which we built our own arm end tools. So, hopefully we get this going just well. We already got the laser welding down (handheld 2kW) and love it. As everything, once you learn the stuff, it seems simple. As always the devil is in the details. Wondering if you have any info on Au3tech software ect. We bought your other videos on your website and hope to extrapolate info from those to the Au3Tech software. Rather than re-inventing the wheel. Possible we will do a Au3Tech video once we have it all down and go into daily production and after we gather some real life experience. We do have experience with China Imports and I have been traveled gone there. There are some great companies to deal with and of course there are the scammers. We dealt with China over 15 years ago, and things changed dramatically. They learned a lot. The overall machine built quality on the frame is good. Its the details you have to rework a bit. Sloppy wiring, missing screws, stuff like that. Our machine came mostly fully assembled. BUT as you said, some electrical connections they forgot to tighten screws ect, so basically we reworkled and also double checked all the wiring and made our own wiring diagram. The biggest challenge are the poorly translated manuals for all the components. We had to download all the manuals from all the suppliers (cutting head, MCC, Proportional Valve ect.). Also, ours came with a Chinese Windows. We simply wiped the hard drive / popped a new harddrive (SDD) in and installed a new Windows 7 Version. Some of our videos of the robot stuff here.
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I love your videos,not for business,just sharing, I can not love more
I think everyone in the diy community would like you to stop calling it a diy laser cutter because you did not build it. I own a cnc plasma cutter that I assembled but I don’t call it a diy cnc
Good luck with it! Looks like a fun challenge.
Great video, thanks for making it! I'm looking at fiber lasers now and hope to be buying one in the next couple of months. Trying to figure out if I can live with a 1KW and trying to figure out what brand to get. Just joined your Facebook group and am wading through all the info there...looks like it'll take awhile!
Can't wait to see how it works.
Congratulations - great video! I know a company in California that paid $500K for an American made 1KW fiber machine last year. 😱
thats awesome, congrats.
Great tips, thank you for sharing.
Very Happy for you!!!!we are gonna be good friends!!, I'll be sending you some drawings for parts to be cut by you!!!
cool almost looks like the one i work with during the day (a bodor cutter) !