K40 Adjustable Bed
Bed s and jigs for the k40 laser machine change your bed.
K40 adjustable bed. Adjustments are easily done with a screwdriver. 1 4 x 5 16 threaded rod 2 length works if you can find it 12 5 16 nuts 1 4 x 1 2 aluminum solid angle super ca glue expanded mesh for table platform can be. With the original bed anything you put on top of the bed is out of focus it s actually inside the clamp. Compare up to 4 products.
I wanted a simple manual belt driven adjustable height table for my chinese k40 laser. As the k40 laser cutter does not come with a moving z axis it s sometimes difficult and time consuming switching in between projects. In this article we upgrade the bed of the k40 laser cutter to a height adjustable honeycomb bed with scales for aligning the workpiece. This increases the work area allowing to engrave larger objects up to 300mm x 200mm.
Adjustable z axis bed laser cutter 40w k40. You save time of doing height adjustments or focusing point adjustment. Please refer to the original design by brianvanh for more details on exactly how it goes together. The traveling distance is 70mm 2 7 inches.
Combine the printed parts with parts from your local hardware store and you can make this pretty easily. The stock bed of the k40 is completely useless and i don t know a single person that would actually use the clamp. Our k40 adjustable bed will streamline your engraves and save the hassle of having to chock up your items on different thickness items whenever you change object. With this power z table handling work pieces of different thickness becomes easy.
At costco you ll find adjustable beds capable of giving both you and your partner exactly what you want. This is my first remix design. Check out all of our bedroom furniture for great deals and wholesale prices. You will get access to a laser focus tool file.
The first thing a lot of k40 laser cutter users tend to do is remove the workspace bed. When the machine arrives it s often installed with a metal bed and a big clamp. This is why we engineered the adjustable honeycomb y axis table. To use the full width of the machine.
This is a mini power bed designed for the k40 also named d40k small desktop co2 laser machine. Hopefully the pictures video make sense. The top of the bed cannot bend inward due to the upper frame and nuts holding it to the threaded rod posts. The optimal focus for these machines are 50 8mm focal point.
The k40 chinese laser cutter is great but the build area is terrible.