Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

["John E. Perry" <j.e.perry@xxxxxxx>]

geda-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ...
> 2) Slap it in the laser cutter, and print the paste layer on it with 
> just enough laser power to blast away the blue paint.  (The CO2 laser is 
> the wrong wavelength for cutting metal, it just reflects off.)
> 

The CO2 laser is the standard tool for metal cutting. Particularly in
very high power applications, it's much less expensive to build, and
where the metal is not perfectly adapted to the CO2 wavelengths, a
"helper gas" such as oxygen does the adaptation very well.

http://www.synrad.com/fseries/index.htm
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/03/27/cut-sheet-metal-with-your-homemade-laser/
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/03/100_watt_metal.html
http://www.e-lasercutting.com/
http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/27568
http://www.e-lasercutting.com/

John Perry


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