How to Maintain Laser Cutting Machines?

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How to Maintain Laser Cutting Machines?
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With the laser cutters, you can produce the most
accurate and highquality cuts for fabrication.
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In order to maintain the efficiency and
consistency of these machines throughout,
fabricators need to perform preventive
maintenance on a regular base. After all the
laser cutter is an expensive piece of
equipment. The first tip is to avoid
procrastination. Because the lack of maintenance
leads to a lower quality cut without any
perfection. To understand how laser parts can
work more optimally, read the below steps to
keep your laser machines up to date.
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Never Leave the Laser Machine Unattended
One of the Laser Materials like acrylic is prone
to catch fire when it goes unattended during the
cutting process. There have been instances when
people had to replace the whole laser cutting
machine in cases of fire. To eliminate such
cases, we need to make sure that someone is
within 3 feet area all the time.
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Keep the Lens Clean Every fabricator has a
different type of laser cutting schedule. Daily
maintenance is one of the major things we need
to make sure for the laser parts involved in the
process.
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• If you wish to replace any of them consider
  Mazak laser parts. They come with good quality
  features and provide an ample amount of cutting.
  One more thing to make sure that after the
  cutting schedule, check the lens and clean if
  necessary. As the top lens and mirror are right
  above the laser beam and exposed to a lot of
  dirt, smokes, debris, and fumes. With the dirty
  lens you might get
• A need of lower speeds or higher power to cut.
• Uneven and blurry images.
• Damaged lenses
• The simple way of cleaning the lens and mirror
  is removing it gently and cleaning both the
  sides with a qtip or lens paper.

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Clean out the Filters
With regular maintenance tasks, you need to
maintain the filter as well. Based on its usage
and the type of materials, you need to change
the inner pad prefiler and clean the foam
dust collector.
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• Here are the hints that indicate that you need
  to replace the filter
• Smoke is collecting in the laser bay.
• Fire/flares in the bay.
• Odor emanating from the machine.
• The filter is dirty on both sides.

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• Here are the steps to follow to replace the
  filter
• Open up the machine.
• You will see the inner filtration assembly
  inside. There would be a foam dust collector
  inside the metal mess. Since it catches the big
  dust particles, rinse this out in the sink and
  dry it out.
• There would be a wrapped pad prefilter on the
  outside.
• You can buy new prefilters and wrap them around.

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Consider Warranties
Warranties are a key part of the buying process.
If you are a fabricator and pursuing a
maintenance contract or extended warranty, it is
important for the purchasing department to have
a complete understanding of points covered in it.
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Do the contract cover maintenance and parts? If
yes then does it cover quality laser parts
Trumpf laser parts? Is there any discount
provided on any needed replacement part? How
much more an emergency service call would cost
without a contract? What are the possible limits
of the contract?
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Replace Charcoals
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• With the cutting, plastics, there are chances of
  developing odors. However, the prefiler works
  the best to get rid of particle matter. But the
  Electrocorp also has 20 lbs of carbon particles.
  And they absorb the nasty smell.
• Eventually, the charcoal gets 'full' and doesnt
  absorb fumes.
• Some indications that you need to replace the
  charcoal
• The smell of burning plastic is strong.
• Smoke sucked away.
• The filter is clean but the problem doesn't go
  away.
• The charcoal smells of fumes.

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To replace the charcoal, pour out and throw out
the old charcoal. Pour in cupfull of fresh
charcoal while tamping down with a rubber matter
or a wooden dowel to pack the charcoal. Final
Thoughts Maintenance of laser parts is varied by
its usage and type. There is no
onesizefitsall solution to properly maintain
the laser fabrication process. And while you
replace the laser parts, you can find several
options from the web if you write queries like
Trumpf laser parts and Mazak laser parts. The
maintenance lessons result in a more consistent,
reliable, and costeffective laser operations.
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