Hello Everyone!
i just wanted to into myself and say hello to my fellow laser addicts!
I'm Chuck, AKA Fritz HID on CPF and other forums as well.
I have and have had a wide collection of lasers over the years starting with my 1st... an old surveyors HeNe 2mW i acquired from a neighbor when i was 13.
then graduated to handheld H.Q. (for the time) laser pointers.
eventually, after college, i got my 1st taste of a Big Boy laser... a Mitsubishi 4kW CO2 laser processor! ....which was later upgraded to the 6kW version!! :drool:
i tell ya, theres nothing like watching a beam of pure coherent photons punching their way through +1" of 316 SS!!!
i grew to learn and love the fine details of these lasers but have since decided that self employment was more my style so now i build and tinker with every aspect of light that i can!
i currently have in my stock..
200mW DPSS handheld 2x AAA pointer
an old 2x AAA red Radio Shack pen style laser pointer (with an amazingly clean beam i might add!)
an older Hughes 15mW HeNe head and PS.
and lastly, a newly acquired Spectra-Physics 107B-2VP laser head that seems to be in pristine condition (it fires briefly AND lases on my Hughes PS but cannot sustain the arc due to low current) but i lack a proper PS for it and finding one thats compatible on "that auction site" has proven to be frustrating in the least. but i WILL get it to fire as soon as i locate the proper PSU.... i say proper because i'd really prefer to keep this tube in as good a shape as i can, for as long as i can. i plan to have it as a "mantle piece" with mirrors, scanners, etc around the room for S&Gs. keeping the cover off so people can marvel at the beauty of the plasma and glass work.... as well as a beautiful red beam! :D
i'm also in the market for a multi/white line gas laser Ar/Kr laser but i need to keep it single phase since i really dont want to stress my household power with phase converters.
another project i'm thinking about is a diode RGB laser that i can build into a projection system that can project TV like images... but thats a project thats in the farther future. ;)
-Happy Collimating!
Fritz
i just wanted to into myself and say hello to my fellow laser addicts!
I'm Chuck, AKA Fritz HID on CPF and other forums as well.
I have and have had a wide collection of lasers over the years starting with my 1st... an old surveyors HeNe 2mW i acquired from a neighbor when i was 13.
then graduated to handheld H.Q. (for the time) laser pointers.
eventually, after college, i got my 1st taste of a Big Boy laser... a Mitsubishi 4kW CO2 laser processor! ....which was later upgraded to the 6kW version!! :drool:
i tell ya, theres nothing like watching a beam of pure coherent photons punching their way through +1" of 316 SS!!!
i grew to learn and love the fine details of these lasers but have since decided that self employment was more my style so now i build and tinker with every aspect of light that i can!
i currently have in my stock..
200mW DPSS handheld 2x AAA pointer
an old 2x AAA red Radio Shack pen style laser pointer (with an amazingly clean beam i might add!)
an older Hughes 15mW HeNe head and PS.
and lastly, a newly acquired Spectra-Physics 107B-2VP laser head that seems to be in pristine condition (it fires briefly AND lases on my Hughes PS but cannot sustain the arc due to low current) but i lack a proper PS for it and finding one thats compatible on "that auction site" has proven to be frustrating in the least. but i WILL get it to fire as soon as i locate the proper PSU.... i say proper because i'd really prefer to keep this tube in as good a shape as i can, for as long as i can. i plan to have it as a "mantle piece" with mirrors, scanners, etc around the room for S&Gs. keeping the cover off so people can marvel at the beauty of the plasma and glass work.... as well as a beautiful red beam! :D
i'm also in the market for a multi/white line gas laser Ar/Kr laser but i need to keep it single phase since i really dont want to stress my household power with phase converters.
another project i'm thinking about is a diode RGB laser that i can build into a projection system that can project TV like images... but thats a project thats in the farther future. ;)
-Happy Collimating!
Fritz