Hi everyone. I just cleaned my galvo mirrors for the first time and noticed my X mirror and my Y mirror look very different. While the X galvo mirror looks like an opaque mirror as I expected, the Y galvo mirror is rather transparent and has a yellow tint and while it is quite shiny it isn’t mirrore…

The progressive part would probably be the laser. When this laser got so bad it wouldn’t print, I designed a light “Choke” to install in front of the laser. It took my laser spot test from sucky to awesome. With it’s help, I have been printing like crazy since placing my order for the replacement…

Hi Josh, Do you want to share your design with the rest of us? :wink:

Well I do, but I probably shouldn’t make it public.

If I have time I’ll take some pictures tonight and do a laser spot test. If not I’m going to be out of town for a week so it’ll have to wait. As for the printer it’s my fourth overall, specifically it’s my first Form1+. I just got it too. The problem started on my third print. And I finally got one …

Ok everyone here they are. First the laser spot test I definitely have a flare. [image] Then for the galvo mirror it was hard to find a way to capture this, what I ended up doing was putting the hex wrench behind the Y galvo mirror and taking a picture of the “mirrored” side. [image] My X galvo…

I think it’s just really really thin. It is very reflective when light hits it from the front like it’s mirrored but the mirror is so thin you can see through it.

One other thing that really surprises me is that it got a couple good prints like this, and it still prints the rook, it just has rough and raggy spots on two sides, but other areas come out cleanly.

So the areas that are rough when I print the rook also correspond with the side oriented in the direction of the flare so it is definitely the problem. I don’t know if the flare is a bad laser or bad galvo mirror.

The way to know is to do a laser spot test with the laser out of the printer. When I did mine with the laser out of the printer it looked exactly the same. So the “Dust Bunny” theory is shit.

Is the Y galvo mirror supposed to be transparent?

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Monger_Designs December 19, 2014, 12:44am 13

I don’t think that’s normal. Almost like they forgot to put the reflective coating on it!

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Is the Y galvo mirror supposed to be transparent?

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