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Article: MANUFACTURING WITH LASERS: When good cuts go bad.
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- Metalworking Production
- Article date:
- May 26, 2009
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Unforeseen factors such as material imperfections, gas inconsistency and dirty lenses used to be the blight of laser cutting, but now, technology is taking control. By Steed Webzell
Despite best efforts regarding careful parameter selection and meticulously cleaned nozzles, sometimes Lady Luck just doesn't shine when it comes to laser cutting. One minute the machine is whizzing away profiling part after part, and then some spatter hits the lens or the nozzle comes across a rogue material imperfection and things start to go wrong.
Most laser operators will say this is a fairly common occurrence in thicker materials. When it happens, the resulting ...