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
Laser engraver for canned goods?
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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.
The laser might be good if selling canned goods to preppers or adventurers and you need it to look professional though.
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What GillyBee said
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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 ?
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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...
If I need to mark tins, I use an indelible marker. Just saying...
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Re: Laser engraver for canned goods?
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.
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.
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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
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Ah!
I forgot about the Dymo embossed tape beasties.
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ForgeCorvus wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 5:51 pmAh!
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
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Ha ha Itsy, nothing is in my orbit if affordability- I am a tight git!
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.