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1303Steve Scirocco Rare

8,650 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#971297
Thats cool, I wonder if any heat is produced that could warp steel panels? Gotta be better than soda

waveman1500 Also rides a Honda

1,346 posts · joined Dec 2009 ·

#971301
That's very interesting! I would have thought that this would be still much too expensive for most applications, although you never know. Heat would definitely be produced, but I guess if the lasers are intense enough, then heat soak to the panel will be reduced because you don't need to apply heat to the surface for very long. At the end of the day it's only 1000 watts, your average hand-held hot air gun is 2400 watts and over a certain length of time they're not applying the heat over that much more area really.
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pfillery Insano Dub Head

734 posts · joined Dec 2011 ·

#971309
Wonder how much the machine costs? Obviously the places offering it are going to use the costs to justify fairly hefty rates per hour to use it.

Maybe you'll eventually be able to buy a DIY setup.

68BUS Wolfsburg Wizard

485 posts · joined Jul 2011 ·

#971316
Cool.
If you look on the laser clean all website they one shown appears o be the back pack model.
Looks very ghost busters and probably not cheap.
Would make stripping a car much less labor intensive though.
I wonder if it hardens the surface through requiring a different etch?
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baghall Ben Hal Outlaw Bushranger

1,021 posts · joined Jan 2010 ·

#971360
Just looked into this and they are used on airplane surfaces. I would expect that any distortion on these would be bad. They do talk about restoration of steel doesn't look bad at all.
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Bizarre Moderator The artist formerly known as blue74l

12,789 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#971374
waveman1500 wrote:. At the end of the day it's only 1000 watts, your average hand-held hot air gun is 2400 watts y.
I am sort of surprised these things are legal??

Your average laser pointer is a mW

The things that they point at planes and blind pilots are only 500 - 750mW

They are illegal here

This thing is a 1000W 🤪
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baghall Ben Hal Outlaw Bushranger

1,021 posts · joined Jan 2010 ·

#971442
Actually sent an email to the American distributer who than passed it onto the South African distributors. Bloody expensive. Around $80,000 for a smaller portable model so the larger 1000 watt models would cost even more.
As far as distortion etc, basically after a long email I can say that it will only develop enough heat if held in same sport for a period of time. So basically the operator needs to move it constantly.
Would definitely love one of these but are currently not available in Australia just yet, unlees you want to pay postage from South Africa. They are hoping to have a distributor in Perth by early 2014.
Hope this helps people.
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baghall Ben Hal Outlaw Bushranger

1,021 posts · joined Jan 2010 ·

#971447
Oh BTW anyone want to finance me to get one of these! 🙂🙂
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cam070 Custom Title Time!

1,332 posts · joined Jul 2009 ·

#971467
Just went to watch the video and the users account has been terminated due to multiple copyright violations. Draw your own conclusions