 Can you cut a full 16-inch door hanger without a puzzle piece on the new X-Tool S140W desktop diode laser? What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do it builder or make it? So do we. And we have new videos each week. Last video We were super impressed with the new X-Tool S140W diode desktop laser. This week We're gonna take it to a whole other length. That's because X-Tool S140W diode laser we tested it out last week. We loved it They also sent us the conveyor feeder that goes with this. So not only does this machine Run like a desktop laser, but it has so many accessories It uses the RA2 rotary tool and it uses the automatic conveyor feeder system So we really wanted to showcase the conveyor feeder system and see and I think the best way to do that is Go to our wheelhouse. Yeah, try to see if we can make a full 16-inch door hanger on the desktop diode today One it's all about that base To use the conveyor system, you need to install the machine onto a riser base So here you can see I think the riser base is what about four inches here It's not that tall, but this will allow us to use the conveyor system and install the rails This was super easy to install the riser base came with four sections the front the back in the two sides And all I had to do was screw them together the instruction said to leave the top left and bottom right screws loose until you put the Machine on top of the base and then tighten them so you'll make sure it's nice and square Yeah, they get it. It kind of clicks into place. You'll feel it settle into place next We had to screw it on to the base and what's interesting here is There's a safety feature and it will let you know if you did not install all six screws. I had trouble Installing one of the screws I cross threaded it. That's I'm famous for cross threading So Garrett came over and he did the screw on the one side But never added the third screw on that side and I didn't realize that until I went to do my first test cut And I had an error message saying that the riser base was not installed properly. So there is a little metal strip Yeah, each each screw has like a little contact. Yes, I think it'll actually complete a contact using the screw It knew that I hadn't had all six of its screws installed Step two install the automatic conveyor feeder. This was also pretty simple now that we had the base installed We just opened the front door and I'm able to use slide the conveyor system On the proper like slots slot setting. Yes And then to screw it in you want to add two screws on each side to make sure it's attached to the laser itself and Secure these well because this will be moving aboard a lot of jiggling Now that the conveyor feeder is installed we'll go ahead and assemble the Conveyor feeder arms rails rails. Yes. Yeah guide rails guide rails Kind of keeps your board level while it's sliding in and out now that the conveyor feeder is installed I wanted to share a couple of more things about the conveyor feeder These are the rails that are on the inside that are installed on the inside of the laser and attached to the conveyor feeder You'll notice that this section here is open this essentially is Like a tiny blade bed because this is your cutting area The thing about when you click in and you select conveyor feeder the laser then has a stationary cut area It is about what would you say four inches? Yeah? I guess like three or four inches by 19 and three quarters. That's the size of the bed So everything moves and gets cut in this area right here kind of like a vinyl cutter Yes, kind of like a vinyl cutter. That's a good point So it only cuts here which is different than your typical laser where the head moves all over the board When you have the conveyor feeder installed it only moves within this area right here and the material moves the full length That's right. The conveyor feeds the material through So it can cut the entire project in this space. Yeah, these pressure feet are Motorized and that's what actually moves your board back and forth So that's a little something I thought I would share because you may not know that about the conveyor feeder Step three. It's test cut time. We have our test cut card from last week It's nice and big so that we can't lose it. We already know what our settings are going to be from the test card We're gonna use 85 7. I feel like that's safe Right, this is what yeah right in here looks like you cut through perfectly. It's got a nice brown color That's what we're using. Yeah So this right here is your cut area inside the laser and Between this area here and the pressure feet which actually move the material back and forth That's 10 inches. So you're gonna need at least 10 inches of extra board So that the pressure feet have something to actually move the material with Let's jump over to X tool creative space to set up our cuts. Here. We are in creative space Let's start by changing from laser flat to conveyor feeder and Now you'll see that the top part of my canvas here has been shaded out That is no longer a cut area. My cut area is now this space here This big long space. It's like 19 and a half by almost 10 feet All right, so let's go grab our project From the creative cloud Well, it reset my canvas. So let's turn my canvas into conveyor feet That was top part of this lands in the shaded area. So it's gonna be outside of my cut area We're gonna have to move it down Now what we're gonna do is we're gonna cut out the backer. So this is the backer So the red are my cut lines blue are my score lines and this piece here is our backer And this piece here is actually two pieces This is the middle layer as the ornaments and these are the score marks for where the letters are gonna go And I'm up here are my accents or my top layer. These are my pretty little ornaments and the words for the sign So what we're gonna do is we're gonna cut out our backer first Now we're gonna flip the board and cut out our middle piece out of the same board Then once we have everything cut out, we'll change back to laser flat and zoom out and we'll grab this guy and we'll drag him back in because he fits Right inside this area. We're just gonna use a regular laser board and cut it. Let's get back to business Set it back to conveyor feed zoom out We're gonna move this down And now Because I don't want it all to cut at one time I'm gonna take this middle layer and I'm gonna move it off of the canvas that way it won't try to cut it We'll only cut this piece which will allow us to flip the board. Now. Let's set our Material thickness. Let's check it. We're gonna use this bullseye over here to measure the actual thickness of the board It's gonna use that little pin. It's gonna drop down Measure the board go back and be set There we go 1.905 and I believe that's in centimeters. I think So it's supposed to be about Now let's do our material settings. Like I said blue is our score marks red are cut So let's start with our score. We're gonna select the whole layer of blue It's already set to score. We're gonna use 50% power 100 millimeters per second. We're gonna leave it at one pass Now for our red layer or our cut layer, we're gonna go over select cut Then this we're gonna use 85% power Seven millimeters per second. We're gonna use the lower focus because we're using quarter-inch MDF. It's a little bit thicker. We're gonna lower the focus So it's focusing on the center of the board not the top of the board Now since we have the rails going we don't want anything to fall through and block it or get caught on the laser head So we're gonna go ahead and do tab generation we're gonna do it by spacing that by month number and 101 millimeters is about four inches. We're gonna need the tab size a half a millimeter And we're only gonna use 20% power when we're passing over those guys All right Let's go ahead and frame this out That framing look good. Let's go ahead and run the sucker So the automatic conveyor system installed and the riser base open in the front and back The air purifier wasn't really doing much. It was having a hard time sucking the smoke out So this thing was no longer enclosed It was so smoky that the smoke alarm actually went off So we ended up moving out to the workshop Our test cut was unsuccessful. I think with all the smoke in the chamber it kind of Cut down the laser power. We're gonna either boost the power or slow it down and try it again Test cut number two We moved it outside and now we're just gonna back down the speed and run it again I'm gonna select the red layer, and I'm just gonna change the speed I'm gonna take it down from seven to six millimeters per second. All right, let's run the sucker We were semi successful. I was able to get the backer out. This is the backer. It looks great here's the board and It looks great However, I use those settings on the top pieces here, and I'm not able to get those all the way out Partially. See I can I can push some of this out. Where am I at? I can push some of this out, but not all of it not down here at the bottom part of this I can't really push that out. Well, I might be able to but it's almost through and right there at the bottom It didn't come through and I think that's because there might have been a slight bow in the board You know from hanging off the either either side Well, I'm not even sure that's it or maybe just from how we've had it stored or just how it came in I think you could have bumped the power up instead of slowing it down I would have bumped it up to maybe 90 even a hundred just to make sure I got through Yeah, I think because we're always using CO2 lasers, and I'm thinking about preserving that laser tube and keeping the laser tube life I really thought about slowing the speed down rather than bumping up the power So I maybe could have cut this a little bit faster if I had increased the power There's a diode laser so you don't really have to worry about preserving that laser tube So we ran it a third time we slowed it down to five millimeters per second But we kept the power at 85 and it came out great and The tabs were great too. Yeah, it's just barely hanging on in there just enough to pop it right out And enough that I can get it out of the conveyor system and stay there I can rotate it put it back in well I think I think they're really great because if we learn with the P2 conveyor system If you don't have the tabs the pieces fall down and get caught There you go. Yes, this this one's a little tricky because it has those long arms Yeah, but you can pop them right out of there. I am really loving these tabs Time to cut the top layer and the top layer of our design will fit all on one desktop size laser board So we don't need the conveyor anymore. That's right Remove the conveyor system closed up the front and back compartments here so that we can totally enclose the laser again And because we did that I decided to cut this at the same power settings We used last week and that we used for our test card, which was the 85 7 All right, so those pieces came out fine Now let's go ahead and do the top layer Set our canvas back to a laser flat Let's fit this in my cut area All right, let's measure our new board All right, our new board looks the same as our last and since we moved it back inside Let's go ahead and bump this speed back up to seven millimeters per second We will leave 85 percent power at one pass We have lower focus on and this doesn't need any tabs because we're back to the honeycomb It worked great. Everything cut through smoothly. I did increase the airspeed to max airflow Just in case it wasn't getting enough air assist on the board as it was cutting But everything went back to normal when I closed up the machine and it was able to extract that smoke a little more efficiently And for this layer we did not add the tabs. We didn't need them because we knew it was going to be on the honeycomb bed So everything really just lifts right out Like everything. These get a little intricate too Yeah, isn't that great? I mean, again, I am shocked that this is a diode laser getting through quarter inch So fast and so clean So clean, yes. I'm super impressed. I was a little worried after the first conveyor feed That maybe I didn't have my settings right or it wasn't as good as it was last week But no, it's still great. I just needed to learn that the smoke may be either increase the power or slow the speed down just a little bit Time to paint and or stain Quick So this is a new design for us. I don't know if you noticed this is a new file we just released We added a little stain. We added a little paint and this thing came out perfectly The X-Tool S1 I think this was a good design to put it through its paces It's a 16 inch round and then it's got a lot of intricate details So we'd really be able to tell if the laser wasn't able to get through Especially on these little circle pieces or if it burned it up But this guy did a great job. I am surprised at how well this thing does for being a diode laser And I was so excited that we were able to successfully use that conveyor system We learned a few things. Hopefully we saved you a little time and frustration Because we give you some lessons learned about just backing that power down or back of the speed down, up in that power And it'll cut through. It'll cut through great It'll cut through great And a big thanks to all of our patrons. 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