What do people use for the honeycomb cutting tables and is it possible to use a Z table with one
I don’t use a honeycomb myself. Spent about $10 for some Strong-ties mending plates from the lumber store. They’re flat galvanized steel with sharp points you’re supposed to hammer into two boards to help hold them together. I have them glued to a piece of MDF with the points up. On top of that I have a thin piece of expanded aluminum to create a nice flat surface. It sits on various spacers I’ve got for the common material sizes I use.
Others have made nail beds (drive nails through a piece of plywood or MDF and flip it over points up so you can rest your material on it).
A Z-axis will support honeycomb. You can get that from Amazon, eBay and LightObject. I’ll probably add LO’s powered Z-axis to my K40 this summer and will likely go the honeycomb route then.
For my laser bed I use the grid of a office lamp the old school square ones that have some thin aluminium sheets, I just thought the honeycomb ones were so expensive as my bed is 800mmx800mm and I’d need to buy multiple as they didn’t come in that size…
@Gunnar_Stefansson where did you get metal grid? I looked for metal but only found plastic at Home depot.
Eric I have a honeycomb bed from light objects sitting on top of a lab Jack that can be manually adjusted up and down it works great for my purposes
@Tr_c_Chinh you need to find them in the scrapyard or someone selling them, search for “light fixture grid” on google images. thats the kind of grid I’m using.
@3D_Laser how big is the platform on your lab Jack?
I´m using 1" nails in a pattern on my bed, good enough and doesnt reflect the laser at all.
But i do 99,9% cutting, no engraving almost.
Pic: -> http://wopr.nu/laser/spikebed.jpg
In this pic is also my adjustable laser head. I have a K40D, another head than most K40´s, so i could change it to my own design.
I am running the same setup as corey, light objects honeycomb with lab Jack. My jack is the 4x4 inch.
@Nathaniel_Swartz I have an 8 inch lab Jack