 This is my upgraded or tour laser master to laser. I just upgraded it with three awesome upgrades And I'm gonna show you that today. My name is Jim and this is the edge of tech Like I said, this is my or tour laser master to diode laser This is the one you saw in these videos here that I've been doing since August I absolutely love this video, but it was time for a change It's time to upgrade this thing with three awesome upgrades today from king gubby designs on Etsy So these guys they post some really cool stuff in the Facebook group So I reached out to him and I said hey I would love to check out your upgrades and they said sure we actually need instructions on how to do some of this stuff That was a perfect trade-off. I love helping the community, especially with upgrades like this So today I'm gonna show you three upgrades that are super easy to do and if you follow my steps They'll be done in no time. What are those three upgrades you ask? Well, as you can see here We have a z adjuster master kit now This kit was designed by a different person But they do have permission to use it and they fully compensate that person with commissions backwards in true form We need to make sure everybody gets credit where credits do and they love this design for the z adjuster They modified it a little bit and they have permission to sell it I'm gonna put the thing averse listings down below along with a credit for each part that way everybody gets credit from this video And it's really cool when the community comes together and helps each other produce such cool upgrades on top of the z adjuster kit right here We're gonna have belt tensioners all the way around So I have one here and two in the back to adjust the three belts That's a pretty easy upgrade that'll take you maybe 15 minutes to do if you follow the video Maybe a little longer so you can see exactly what I'm doing But it's actually not that bad. Don't be intimidated. You can do it The third one we're gonna do our feet to lock our laser down to our chipboard That is super important if you want to burn a grid or you want to make sure you're hitting the same spot every time for tiles Etc. So that'll be the third upgrade that I did on this one enough talking. What we need to do is jump into the build Let's do it So we're gonna start with the z adjuster focus master kit and that is gonna take this right here Which is our adjustable focus laser and it's gonna allow it to go up and down Which is really awesome because a lot of times you might have material that's taller or shorter And you really need to get this, you know closer or further away from the material to get the optical focal point This is a super simple upgrade basically it takes this plate It replaces what's on there and then we use this t-handle here And you're gonna put this t-handle in and it'll move the laser up and down This will actually give you 40 millimeters of travel between the up and down motion, which is a really cool thing We're gonna drop our laser on here. So it's a little bit higher So it actually has that travel to go up and down I do believe that he said that these come unassembled a lot of times in my case He assembled it before he sent it. So if this does come unassembled, let me know I'll get you a video coming on that, but it's pretty easy to assemble I'm gonna use the assembled one and throw it on so the first thing we want to do is unplug our Laser diode there just like that. Then we want to loosen up these four caps Grab the wrench that came with your laser master or a little socket. Whatever works for you. Just be careful Let's get all four of these off and we'll go from there now once we have those caps off We can pull our laser straight off just like that and we're gonna push the gantry backwards So we're gonna work right here in the center of the laser now that you have your laser diode off We need to flip it over and take out the two screws that hold it to the mounting plate So we're gonna do that now now that we have that off We can take your plate and set it aside and this is where we bring in the new plate this one right here So something I know I want to set this up as high as I can That way I can raise it up as high as I can and lower it down if I need to so in my case I really want these top screws to screw like into the bottom of my diode right here like that now because This is assembled we need to lower this down so the top holes are where we want them to do that You want to grab your allen wrench here? and we're gonna flip this over and We are just gonna turn this So it slides down and you can see this whole plate is moving downwards Okay, so in my case. I'm actually gonna use the second holes down Which is these right here. I have that G8 lens in here and it needs a little bit longer of a focal point So once I see I could see the two holes through these now I could see these holes through there We're actually gonna use our screwdriver and screw through that so you want to align it up so it looks nice I'm gonna actually use the bottom Slots right here on mine So it's way up there If you want to get a small screwdriver though, I think one came with the set that would work just fine Unfortunately, I can't find it right now. We want to take our screws Line them up with the holes in the laser and then screw down right between there So what that'll look like is me taking my screwdriver Finding the hole there we go lining it up and then tightening in Both sides now you don't want to over tighten remember these are 3d printed parts And you will crack them if you over tighten them. So do not over tighten I'd say go to just at tight and then once you're just at tight Maybe like a quarter turn past that so as I was doing this I forgot that these holes are the ones we need to go in so if you can see I tried to go in here But it was too long these two are too far apart So we need to go in these top holes. That was my mistake So we're gonna do that and these screws are pretty soft. They will strip out Very quickly if you don't have the right bits on it now You can see we have it attached if we turn this over. We're good to go We can throw this back on the laser now. So as I was working on this I realized that this If I lower it I realized that this came loose and they told me that this was a weak point in the design They sent me a couple files to print to actually fix that part in the design But we have to take this apart to actually fix it. So What I'm gonna do is I'm going to loosen this all the way out and we're gonna take the screw out of this nut here so when you get that far take your t-handle and Loosen this thing up. We want to get this out. So I believe going forward. They're gonna have this fix And you're not gonna have this little piece that fails all the time now that this is loose all we have to do is unscrew The printed part here and we'll take that piece out now that we got it out and we took out that little spacer We're gonna push this all the way to the top and We're gonna Screw this down once we got this screwed in We're gonna flip this over and we're gonna take the new spacer They provided and we're gonna push it right over the top of our bolt here and And right into the block Just like that. So now that is actually gonna hold everything and keep it moving now If we stick our own wrench in everything moves like it should and this thing is much better than The little then this little spacer here. That's just held on by a grub nut. This was a great idea I really appreciate buck Sending me that file. I printed it in the revisions There's there might be a slightly newer one than this, but this is the one I had it fits great now that this is on and it looks great It's working good. We can get this thing back on the laser now that we got the new spacer on that yours will probably come with all we have to do is pop this bad boy back onto these four bolts like it came off of and It might be a little bit tight when you do that because it is a 3d printed part But for the most part it fits really nice slides on there and it holds on really good So we're in there just like that now grab the four nuts We took off earlier put them on and tighten them down, but not too tight now. You can see we have it mounted on It's nice and secure Just finger tighten these and then about a quarter turn or a half turn more than that You don't want to over tighten this. This is 3d printed and it'll crack grab your wire and plug it back Into the top of the laser. We need power right now We can really see how this works so it came with the t-handle like this and you're gonna put the t-handle in the top and When we spin the t-handle, it'll raise and lower that laser head quick heads up before we do the end stop I noticed that I had this piece on backwards It actually goes on from the back like this and when you put it on like this It doesn't stop the laser from coming up as far as you need it to go now It'll go right past it if you put it on wrong It'll actually stop it and you don't want that to happen So make sure you have the new block coming in from the back That way you can raise your laser up Quite a bit now. We're almost done with this We just have to make one more modification and that is our Z end stop So let's go do that now now we're focusing on the the left front of the laser if you're looking at it Where this end stop is this is where the gantry comes and knows where to stop like that There's a couple ways you can do this But you do have to do this because the new bracket puts the laser just forward a little bit The first way to do it is to grab this piece here that they send Toss it right there and The gantry will come like this it'll hit it and it'll trip the end stop like that Now this is the fast way to do it and it will work if you do it this way you're done You don't have to do anything else your z-height adjust is done and that modification is over But the better way to do it is to actually move your end stop here And we're going to do that by just loosening this top Screw like we did when we installed it just like that And it slides on a t-nut, okay like that So there's a couple things we need to do when we're done We'll need to retighten the belt my suggestion is to take the spacer put it up underneath push it as far Against this extrusion as you can in this corner pull your end stop right to the end of that spacer And that's about where it needs to be So then hold it tight grab your screwdriver And retighten that in so now if you put your spacer up underneath The little pin should match up with this side So when this comes it'll hit and it'll be it'll stop where it needs to stop now Now we will need to tighten our belts, but i'm going to do that from the back side If you need to know how to do that I spun it around this is the little nut You'll take your screwdriver You'll loosen this one give it a good pull so it's tight And we can go over tightening the belts in another video But just make sure it's tight just like you did when you built the laser master Once you think it's tight flip it up and then just tighten this screw back in Sorry for the bad angle on that. I just wanted to show you real quick how to do that And that's it. We officially installed the z adjuster master focusing kit Now the awesome part about this is if you know the exact focal distance of your laser for instance I have a g8 and it's right around 75 millimeters. I can grab a millimeter ruler I can find my material or find any material dial this down to 75 millimeters using the end of the housing here Focus the laser in really good Secure it and then all I have to do when I'm ready is drop material underneath Grab my t handle Put it in the top use your ruler and turn this to 75 millimeters every time And then you shouldn't have to refocus every time now. It's always good to check your focus But this will make life a lot easier being able to adjust that up and down So next what we want to do is put our new belt tensioners on now. These are going to be awesome It's going to allow us to adjust the belt with just turning a knob And I absolutely love these some of the new creality machines are coming with these on them The ender 3v2 and the cr60 both have those on them But it's going to be awesome to have them on my laser as well Now they come in a bag like this if we dump out all of the contents What we have is the new knob assemblies like this Uh, the new mounting brackets Some little uh belt clips that go on the inside and new belts too But if you did not trim your belt too short, you should be able to use your stock belts And use this as backup belts. I love that idea if I spin this around You can see that I left a pretty good amount of belts on all three And I'm going to try to use those in this video so I can keep these as backups If your belts aren't long enough You'll have to replace them with the ones that came with the kit and then that's okay too You'll just won't have a backup in the future. Let's get into it So I'm looking at the back Right of the machine now and the first thing that I want to do is take off this bolt right here So we need to take that washer off. We don't want to use this washer anymore. So the bolt comes loose The washer comes off just like that and we'll set that aside Now what we need to do is grab the tensioner that is for this side and you're going to know it's for this side because When you put it on the angle will be right here And you'll see a little slot right there for the belt to go through so the belt will actually go through like this and then It'll secure itself with the screws up into it like that So you want to make sure you're grabbing the right side if you grab the wrong side You'll know it because it won't fit it won't look right Now what we want to do is take off this screw right here And what that's going to do is loosen our leg here, but that's okay We're going to we're going to fix it in a minute and you're going to come loose from that t-nut Then we want to grab the one for the proper side here Take your nut take your screw out like that take your new piece and feed the belt through right here Through the bigger hole and then it should sit on just like this So playing with this for a little bit working on trying to get it back on I found it's easier if you take this leg off Uh, you put the printed piece on it you get the threads started in here And then the threads won't fall out when you try to put it on Then you can take your belt you can feed it through the same belt hole as it was before push the belt up to get it out of your way Like that And then you'll want to slide the t-nut in the back here So you can get access to it from uh the left side there and we'll start that like this and then Make sure this is good and on And then you can screw the second one in and it should go right into the extrusion Like it's supposed to go now. We got it on there. It's hard to see because it's all black here So if we look at it from the side, we have the new bracket on here And the belt is laying right here. So this next part I'm going to actually loosen the front here That way we can pull the belt out and get the tensioner attached in the back over here So to do that I grab my screwdriver. I go in the top To where our end stop is now be careful. You don't want to move this end stop too much because you might have to move it back But once you loosen that you should be able to pull the belt down through And that'll give you a little extra room So on the left side, I actually ended up just taking the whole screw loose That way I can pull my belt back this way and pull it over here to the left Now what we need to do is put our tensioner on and to do that We need to take the tensioner here. That's that's what this piece is here We need to push The belt down through the top And around it And then it needs to hook and latch onto the belt underneath like that Now they do send some of these little plastic locking clips Personally, I like zip ties a lot better But I'm going to use this because they sent it and I might use a zip tie as well So I'm going to slide the clip on like that push it pretty far up there Then I'm going to take the tensioner. I'm going to push the belt down through it And bring it around like this and make sure It's very important that the teeth come together and they bite each other It's very very important that that happens. Otherwise this thing will just slip and it won't work Then their instructions say to take their little tensioner here Once you have that ready And slide it back over the top the belt goes through here It's gripping the other side of the belt and it's holding that in nice and tight Now according to their instructions, they want you to glue this to make sure it doesn't move at all Now I can pull on it and it's pretty good and tight But I am going to throw a zip tie on here to be safe as well But if you have some glue definitely glue that like the instructions say So what I'm going to do is I grabbed a zip tie here I am literally going to go around This is a pretty good size zip tie for this But I'm going to go around like that I'm going to go in front of their coupler And I'm going to pull that zip tie as tight as I can So now that is super tight grab a side cutters Cut it and that just gives me a little more security Not trusting or not saying that that coupler thing isn't going to work If especially if you glue it But I just like the extra security of a zip tie just in case always make sure your teeth are grabbing Now I turned it what I'm going to do is just push this through Pull the belt back through here and you can tell which way it goes. There's a notch at the top You can take your nut and just put it Right on the end So it doesn't pull all the way through And then just let it sit in there now This is going to be the tensioner when you tighten this it's going to pull the belt out and tension it Now you see all this slack here We need to push that back through where it was and get that end stop back and set up So now I'm on the front. I'm going to pull the belt like that And just like we did when we first set this thing up We're going to take our belt. We're going to push it up through We're going to find our bolt that came with it that looks like this here And we're going to secure it to that t-nut underneath Now one thing to remember is that we already put that That z height adjustment on here. So I need to readjust my End stop to match that z height, which is 25 millimeters So I'm screwing this down here and we want to make sure this is pretty good and tight Um when we go because this this tensioner is going to work It's going to be great, but it only can tension so far So we want to make sure that Everything is You know a little bit tight when we start so I'm going to use my spacer like we did earlier in the video I'm going to put this underneath I'm going to bring this out to the 25 millimeter mark Now this is straight now your belt is in here, but I can see it's very loose when But now that we have this tensioner when we turn this It can help us tension that Tension that out now. Remember it only can go so far. That's why I said You want to pull it on the other side to make sure it's pretty good You know pretty tensioned already, but you don't want to over tension your belts So now that you have this one on we're going to do this side the same exact way as we did this one Then we're going to spin the laser around And on this side of the laser we're going to put This tensioner on like this and there's only one that'll fit here It's going to go on exactly the same using these two bolts Remember always take your washers out right here, too So essentially that's how we install our belt tensioners. It is actually very easy On this side you would have to loosen This bolt here To get the belt back that way, you know to make it fit right, but that's all you have to do It is super easy. It's very easy once you do the first one So we've got this one done here and I'm going to go on to this one And then I'm going to go on to this one and I'll be right back As I did that last section I realized it was kind of hard to see exactly How I put the belt in the tensioner and I wanted to show that quick on this white background So this would represent our belt that came through the machine. This is our tensioner So what you want to do is put the belt because it'll come out like this of the machine It'll go face down through the tensioner And if I turn it to the side You can see There's teeth on both sides here Okay You want to squeeze this together Like that And make sure those teeth are very good and tight like that Now if we were using the 3d printed Uh part here, it would look like this. You would take you would go down Pull out Make sure the teeth are nice and together like that Like that Then you push your 3d printed Part right there and that'll hold them together push it all the way in like that so So you can see the 3d printed part the teeth are together This isn't going to go anywhere right now And then you would glue this and all I did that was different Is I put a zip tie around it to hold it nice and tight And now I'm going to go back to doing the other side We just need to loosen this side Let's get the belt out this way and then we're going to put our tensioner on this arm over here So this is where our controls or our wires go in here This is the side we're going to put it on to do that. We're going to loosen the belt Bolt right here the one that's holding the belt in and it has a washer there that's that's holding your belt in So loosen that up and push this all the way through Until there's maybe a half inch there and tighten this back up And this is I'm only doing it this way so I can reuse the belts that I had If your belts are already short like this because you cut them off Then start over and use the the belts that they gave us So now I spun it around and I'm going to show you the fast way to get this belt onto this side You literally are going to unscrew this side now And we're going to take that washer off anyway of this side So we only need to take the washer off of the left side here that I'm working on We're going to pull this side left here While we push our gantry to the right And that's going to pull the belt this way Now what we need to do is the same thing we did before we're going to take this Put it on just like we did before right here get our tensioner on like we did before and then this side will be done I'm not going to show you that because we already went in detail through one of them. It's the same on all three I just wanted to point out that you can loosen that side Pull the rest of the belt this way and hopefully have enough for your tensioning So I just wanted to quick show you a back view of what I got So this one's on and installed this one's on and installed and this one is too Now this one here the belt is just a little bit long So you can see I had to tighten it a lot more than these two what I probably Should do Is pull the belt back that way and then you know push this in so it matches these So basically I would loosen up the front I would pull the belt back this way so it pulls this part in and then it wouldn't stick out so much So I might do that after the video, but just know right now we're good to go The other question you might see is what about belt tension and I'm going to show you that in a second So this is the left side of the machine as I'm looking from behind and you can see it goes up and over like it should And I just wanted to show you the belt tension So when you push on this there should be about a quarter inch of play here on all these sides So if it's really really loose that's bad and if it's too tight and you can't push on it That's also bad. So maybe just like a quarter inch of play that should be about perfect And you'll know you'll be able to roll everything nice and smooth when it's done But just be careful because these belt tensioners make it super easy to over tension your belts So be very careful if you have any questions about that hit me in the comments below But I hope I described that and showed that pretty well So that was the first two upgrades. It's time to go on to the third one Number three Number three is literally feet to hold our laser into place. These are super simple They come in many different varieties. These guys ship some ones like this. They're kind of big blocks They actually have some fun ones that look literally like monster feet, you know So they sent me those and they're working on a brand new one that uses Legos and I love that So what I'm going to do today is show you how they work I'm not going to screw them down because I'm going to get the Lego version and put those on because I love that idea With that being said, I'm going to show you really quick on how to use these So each one of these has a slot And a couple of holes for some screws and what we're going to do is slide them over where the feet are And screw them down to whatever our chipboard is underneath or whatever underneath your laser is I'm going to zoom in and show you a closer look at that. So right here. We have the front of our machine We're going to pretend that this is the chipboard We're going to take our piece right here. You can see this is the slot This is the down where it goes down here. The screws will sit right onto the table And all we're going to do is if this is where we want it, we're going to set it right there And we're going to push that right in to the end. We're going to do that on all four corners And it slides right in Like that And then you would take a screw and just screw it right down to the table Now my suggestion is to do this one here and then do the back corner over there That way it doesn't move this way and then do this corner and then that corner But you can do it any way you want as long as it doesn't move Now I suggest doing this before you burn a grid Because if you burn a grid and then move it your grid will be completely off So make sure you push these on, you know, make sure they're tight in here in all four corners Grab your screws screw them down. There's two in each hole. And then that's it That is the third upgrade for the Artur laser master 2 Okay, that was the three upgrades I wanted to talk about today on the Artur laser master 2 I tell you what, they're not hard at all. They're actually pretty straightforward once you follow them Again, I hope I showed the belt tensioners. Okay, if I didn't let me know in the comments below And I could try to help you with that a little better Now there's one upgrade that I didn't do today and that is the air assist I didn't do that because they're actually in the process of making a better one as we speak Now they did send me a couple of them and I really like that design So I didn't want to make a video today and show you on what I'm not going to use I'm going to show you on one that I want to use on this machine And I tell you what the upgrades that they're doing are phenomenal It is not only going to hold an air assist But I believe it's going to hold a little endoscope too And I love that idea because I have an endoscope right over here And we're going to put it on the end so we can see that dot we can focus We can see what's going on. We can do time-lapse stuff with the camera All sorts of crazy stuff with the endoscope. So so that's coming soon. So stay tuned But in this case we did three upgrades number one We did the z height right here number two We did the belt tensioners and the third upgrade would be locking our laser into place with these feet Now there's a bunch of different feet out there. These are the ones they give us which I really like in the kit Again, they have some really cool ones coming and you can actually use Legos to make it taller or shorter Depending on how high you need to go off of your chipboard Something else to point out not only do they give us this allen wrench that can adjust everything right here They give us this little black card And at first I had no idea what this was so I reached out to buck I said what the heck is this and he said this is a better way to get a focus on your laser I'm going to use this to lay it underneath We're going to focus it on top because you can see the the dot better on this style card And then we'll have a better focus with this card. So I'm going to give it a try So if you get this in your kit, that's what that's for it's for focusing So use this to focus going forward Well, I hope you guys learned something today If you have any questions at all throw them in the comments below and as always keep burning Hey everybody, I hope you guys liked the video today If you did give me that thumbs up hit the subscribe button right here If you haven't already and the bell if you want to get notified for hot makes or any other great video We put out. We'll see you guys again next time you rock