After many years of lusting after laser cutter, and lots of researching, I lucked out and picked up a GCC Laserpro Mercury II (M-40W). I spent the first few weeks going through the exciting fun of clunky driver issues. I’m Mac based, and being M1 based, can’t virtualise...
Well then, after a complete strip-down and check over of the new vacuum former, I clamped down, heated up, vacuumed and released. Rather than waste a tonne of new sheet, I reused the first sheet - trying to figure out the heat settings, the timings and the vacuum capacity. I...
Well, if I've got to grow older, then I deserve cool stuff to make up for it. So, roll on my newly acquired C R Clarke 1210 vacuum former [http://www.crclarke.co.uk/Products/VF/1210.html]. Photos to follow, but for the uninitiated, it's a plastic former that...