xTool F1 Ultra Ultimate Stress Test | Aluminum Injection Mold from a Fiber Laser | 3D Engraving
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2024
- This was a little experiment of a stress test I performed using the F1 Ultra. It pushes the limit of what can be done with a fiber lase with some pretty insane results. Check it out.
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Very cool test. Kudos to you for staying the course for such a long stress test.
Amazing Review, showing the capabilities of this Laser..
That is a wild idea. Turned out great.
Thanks. It was a lot of nervous waiting to see how it would turn out.
Nice! Thanks for sharing...I was experimenting with this method a while back, but got side tracked building lasers. I was trying it using a Feeltek 3D scan head which can focus the Z height down to 15mm deep. I was running into the same hurdles of the slope of the deep walls, but if you design for that limitation, it totally works!
Yeah I tried to figure out how to exactly accommodate for it but since injection molding requires that slight slope any way it's almost a benefit for the molds. However I'm guessing there must be a limit to how deep you can go before your design slopes to a point where everything converges.
Impressive experiment, I guess somebody wild enough could use this machine to cut complicated forms from metal chunks using rotator. If base is capable for days of running it is only a matter of supporting adjustements to convert it from graver to metall tool production.
Problem is that you don't control how much is removed. So you cannot use it for precise work.
@@m19710310 If you prepare depthmap youself you can be sure how much is removed I think.
That's super cool, hopefully a company will eventually release a fiber laser in the $500 range. Then I'll be able to afford it.
Yeah. Fiber laser's in the 20W range can be had for around $1500 now without any bells and whistles but as they become more prevalent I'm sure the cost will go down.
If you have a decent idea of what goes into a fiber optic laser, you'll understand that fiber lasers are probably not going to reach the sub 1000$ range.....at least one I would want, due to safety concerns
Buy the good one with AFFIRM and make payments and do enough side job stuff to pay for itself.
Holy crap, 4 STRAIGHT days running! That is insane to actually see.
Thanks Brandon. Yeah and I live in Los Angeles and did it during the hottest week we had here all year. So in LA, a place known for brown outs when the power grid gets too stressed I was sweating it for multiple reasons.
What an interesting and impressive experiment!! Congrats!! 🎉
Thank you!
Wow that's impressive!
Thank you!
So I had an idea for the issue you had with the brass, go ahead and drill them out like you did but then put some matching aluminum dowels into the holes to maintain the consistency, then punch them out once it's done.
I had thought about the same thing since I already had the holes in there. It would have been better if I had done something like that.
Have you done a video on making molds with that small cnc machine? The surface finish looked pretty good.
I happened to just be fixing that mold on my CNC at the time I took that part of the video. It wasn't made entirely with it. I believe I had that one made at PCBWay. I just needed footage of my CNC and that was the first thing I found. I do have some videos of making molds with a hobby CNC on my channel but nothing that fancy.
Those vent holes look awesome! We'd love to get you an EDM machine to try burning some molds. We definitely want to try out your injector!
Thank you. I have seen your project in the past and always thought it looked really cool. I had always tried to think of an excuse to need one. I remember a version with more of a stick (sorry I don't know the term) which could poke holes in the metal instead of the wire. Are you still developing both types of machine or just the wire EDM?
@@BusterBeagle3D Our supplies can be used for both WEDM and plunge EDM (for molds). We're going to be working on a video for plunge work soon.
Would love to connect over email and share some ideas! -Cooper
That's awesome brother..
Thanks for watching!
This should be possible in lightburn but it would reqire using several layers possibly also multiple files, no idea if it would work with the commarker as I dont have one, but if z adjustments work in lightburn it should be doable
Using the CNC for the bulk of the work and finishing with the laser would be a very powerfull combo for stuff like this
Great video, and quite impressive performance
Using a combo like that makes a lot of sense
Youre crazy hahaha and i thought i was.
I would be concerned about the explosion hazard caused by the ultra fine aluminum dust. Better dust extraction and grounding would likely help mitigate the risk.
Wild..
Thanks!
Hello, is it possible with my creality falcon pro 22w laser? hugs from Brazil
Unfortunately no. This requires a fiber laser.
Not sure about the usefulness, as you cannot set the exact depths. It is not like "this hole must be 2 mm" here.
While you can not exactly tell it to make a 2mm hole you can run tests and figure out how many passes at what power/Speed it would take to make a 2mm hole in a particular material.
Please wear a good mask or respirator to protect your lungs from aluminum powder
Agreed. The machine was hooked up to a pretty strong external inline fans that was then filtered through a multi-stage charcoal and HEPA filter before exhausting outdoors.
@@BusterBeagle3D you need to run the air exiting into water. you have no idea the danger of this powder
@@o1ecypher Not a bad idea. I know aluminum power is a ingredient of thermite which is why I warn about it in video but venting directly in water may even be better then through the filters.
@@BusterBeagle3D Please and the lazer itself needs to be enclosed, lets say in Plexiglas for visibility
@@o1ecypher This XTool F1 Ultra has a full enclosure so there was no dust at all escaping. Everything was being exhausted out of a duct in the back.