Phil Howard is the owner of Filener laser. This is Phil in his shop outside of Beavercreek, Oregon. To the right of Phil is the laser.
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The laser and table. The table is 4' by 4'. The laser is mounted to an XY table that had a specificed precision of half a thousandth of an inch. The laser is rated at 100 watts.
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Phil standing next to another of his ventures, a land yacht. Phil owns windhog.com which builds aluminum land yachts which run on beaches and dry lake beds. Phil's son MIG and TIG welds the chassis. They have a 100 amp MIG welder which the feed aluminium wire with, and a 300 amp TIG welder.
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The front section of the land yacht.
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Plastic stock for customer parts. The stock for my datalogger bezels is undoubtedly in there somewhere.
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Table and laser computer interface.
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Phil's daughter shows a test piece of granite that has been laser engraved.
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The laser is mounted above and uses a prism to bend the light at a 90 degree angle. The shop vac hose is to remove fumes from cutting the material. There is a lense at the bottom (below the rubber band) that focuses the laser beam.
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Long ball lead screw and IGUS Chainflex cable carrier.
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Phil cuts theatrical gel packs to provide color behind some bezels.
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Yet another cool project. This hull will someday be a hovercraft. I believe he said that the lift would be a 5 HP engine and the forward thrust would be a 10 HP engine.
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