 What is up Tuesday? It's what's happening around the shop, and today what's happening around the shop is laser two is not cutting through. So it's time for a little bit of spring cleaning, we're going to wipe down the rails, we're going to use a magic eraser and some water and some paper towels, we're going to wipe down the rails, wipe down the belts, then we're going to oil the rails, oil the little wheels that are inside the rails, and then we'll get to cleaning the lenses and and the mirror. I got a bucket of some soapy water, it's really only filled up to like here, we're just gonna put the magic eraser in there, squeeze it out really well, wipe down all the rails, spill the water. We're gonna remove all the old oil and grime, we're gonna hit it with a magic eraser, follow it up with a paper towel. Alright we're gonna go wash our hands and make sure all the grease oils and dusts are off of our fingers, then we're gonna come back and clean the mirrors. So I'm gonna wash my hands. Yeah Garrett's washing his hands, I've got fresh baby hands, but what you guys don't know is that this place K&G workshops also doubles as a spot. So let's go see what Kim's doing real quick. Hey Kim, how are you? Having a spa day? Looking good. To clean the mirrors we're gonna use this alcohol solution and some q-tips, we're just gonna do all three mirrors. All three huh? All three. Oh we're going back there. Yeah we'll go back to the back, it's been a while since we cleaned back there. It's been a minute. Have a gentle touch when you're cleaning the mirrors on your eraser because they are super finicky and you don't want to scratch them or have them shift out of position. Are we gonna start with this? I'm gonna raise the head all the way up. Yep. So I can take the spacers out. Order for us to get to the lens on our eraser, we have to take off the nozzle and we have to take off the entire head. This ruler actually doubles as a screwdriver. Look how dirty that guy is. He has the same solution. While cleaning it we noticed we had these little dots all over the lens. We weren't able to get them off and I think we're gonna need a new lens. Inserting the new lens we had to make sure that the concave side goes up and then we're gonna add the metal washer and then we're gonna screw back in the little holder piece, the screw holder. What are you doing here? I'm setting the focus height for a quarter inch MDF. We marked this little triangle so we know what it's like. How many times have you lost that triangle? Oh, every day for like the last three years. All right, next we're gonna align all of the mirrors. We're gonna use some packing tape to put over the mirror. We're gonna give it a pulse and we're gonna check to see where it hit on this packing tape. We're gonna start with the back mirror and then work our way to the lens. So I'll go back there Tanner. Be sure to use packing tape because I've definitely caught different types of tape on fire. Yes, packing tape does not burn and it won't catch on fire. We're gonna bring the power down on this so that we're not blasting, so that we're not gonna blast through the tape and everything. We just want to bring it down to like 15 or 20 percent just enough so it'll get through the tape and we'll be able to see where it's actually hitting. Pretty good too. So we're gonna use these little screws back here to adjust it until we hit it in the quarter turn. I can never remember which way to turn these screws so I made myself a little cheat sheet. Here it is in the top left. I will leave a link to this down in the description below. But yep, you just keep tweaking those little those little screws about a quarter turn each time. Maybe an eighth of a turn. Nothing too big. If it gets too far gone it's hard to hard to bring it back. We're just gonna keep firing it and then keep twisting those screws until we get it dead center. So here we are doing the same process we were doing with the mirrors but at the tip of the laser head. It doesn't move much but it's always nice to double check. Alright that looks center too. You can see it. Alright everything's looking good in center. We're gonna do a test cut now. We're just gonna cut out a circle in a square. See how it goes. There's some circles and they are not big at all. So we'll just draw a little square, a little circle, check our settings. They look right. That's how we cut on this laser. And it should be good. Important stuff. Oh yeah. Do not forget to set your power back. That's right. It's not forget to set our power back. All good for our test. Alright nice and clean. Looking a little hot. Whoa! It cut out perfect. Of course it cut out perfect. We cleaned up the rails. We oiled the rails. We cleaned up the lenses. We cleaned up the mirrors. We got a good test cut. We're back in business. Look at that. Kim out great. All of our curfing is perfect. So we are good to go. And we are about out of time. So we will see you on Friday where we'll build it and make it again. And we'll replace Tanner with Kim. Getting the ax all ready? Yeah. Alright.