Laser engraver for canned goods?

[reciloy]

Does anybody use a laser engraver for their canned goods?

I am unsure if this is a subtractive manufacturing technique, or if it can apply branding to an alloy, but would make marking canned items very handy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chmHD3PmrBo

[GillyBee]

I would use a common or garden engineering scribe from a 2nd hand tool shop for £2 for home use and just scratch on by hand.
The laser might be good if selling canned goods to preppers or adventurers and you need it to look professional though.

[Arzosah]

What GillyBee said

[reciloy]

Costs are down to a few hundred pounds now. There are plenty of materials that these machines will etch into, plenty of uses for this kind of kit, I would consider buying one, I just wondered if this was in the affordability orbit of the community ?

[jansman]

I remember reading about the USA space programme, and the development of a pen that would write in zero gravity- it cost a couple of million dollars apparently. The Russians used a pencil!

If I need to mark tins, I use an indelible marker. Just saying...

[ForgeCorvus]

Even at a few hundred notes each you'd need to be marking an awful lot of cans to make it viable..... Plus you need a different graphic for each date.

All forms of etching or engraving are subtractive.

If you want one as a tool and can afford one then go ahead, its your brass when all is said and done.

[itsybitsy]

I remember reading about the USA space programme, and the development of a pen that would write in zero gravity- it cost a couple of million dollars apparently. The Russians used a pencil!

If I need to mark tins, I use an indelible marker. Just saying...

Maybe you want to spring for a label-maker J? Not sure if it's in your orbit of affordability, but maybe worth considering as a more up-market alternative to the good old indelible marker

[ForgeCorvus]

I remember reading about the USA space programme, and the development of a pen that would write in zero gravity- it cost a couple of million dollars apparently. The Russians used a pencil!

If I need to mark tins, I use an indelible marker. Just saying...

Maybe you want to spring for a label-maker J? Not sure if it's in your orbit of affordability, but maybe worth considering as a more up-market alternative to the good old indelible marker

Ah!
I forgot about the Dymo embossed tape beasties.

[Yorkshire Andy]

I remember reading about the USA space programme, and the development of a pen that would write in zero gravity- it cost a couple of million dollars apparently. The Russians used a pencil!

If I need to mark tins, I use an indelible marker. Just saying...

Maybe you want to spring for a label-maker J? Not sure if it's in your orbit of affordability, but maybe worth considering as a more up-market alternative to the good old indelible marker

Ah!
I forgot about the Dymo embossed tape beasties.

I've got the slightly more modernized p-touch label printer they come in handy from time to time

[jansman]

I remember reading about the USA space programme, and the development of a pen that would write in zero gravity- it cost a couple of million dollars apparently. The Russians used a pencil!

If I need to mark tins, I use an indelible marker. Just saying...

Maybe you want to spring for a label-maker J? Not sure if it's in your orbit of affordability, but maybe worth considering as a more up-market alternative to the good old indelible marker

Ha ha Itsy, nothing is in my orbit if affordability- I am a tight git!