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That SeaBee park in Abilene Tx. Or just outside of Sturgis SD. I’d have to check the vid to see which.

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Glad you like it Travis. If you get any questions, you know how to get hold of me.

Thanks for the visit

Also forgot to mention if you enjoyed the song that was in the video I wrote that and many others. check out my other CZcams page called “one quarter human”

It starter as an XTool D1 standard 10watt. After adding the extension, I had to start using the D1 Pro settings. ( all free from the XTool site) I run Lightburn as a 2d cad and laser controller. Recently added air assist. Actually very basic. I think if I were looking into getting my first laser I'd look at some of these that already have air assist and more powerful lasers straight out of the box. Most I have seen can be extended for less that it cost me on the XTool.

Did it work?

@@lazerbuilderrc1536 Yes it did, I had to reshape one of the weight-saving holes though because there wouldn't be enough "flesh" left but that was a breeze.

Appreciate you tuning in. Please like and subscribe if you haven't already, check out my other page if that interest you and, otherwise hang out and learn. Happy building!!!

I am actually working on setting up a Patreon account where members will be able to download my laser cut files. Stay tuned!! And thank you very much for checking out my videos.

Currently I use an Xtool d1 with a 10watt laser. Works fine for balsa and light ply airplanes. Hopefully going to up the wattage soon. Thanks for checking out my videos.

@@lazerbuilderrc1536 thanks so much for the reply!! I’m loving your videos as I just purchased a 10w laser for Rc airplanes…..👍

Thanks for stopping by.

@@lazerbuilderrc1536 cheers! 👌

Are we promoting promosm or is this just a secret code word?

You’re very welcome. It’s possible the same technique will work on other ESCs but I couldn’t tell you which ones.

That is a very kind and more than fair offer. My email address is terrymf532@gmail.com Right now I’m good on plans but always in motion is the future.

Hello fellow RC’er from across the pond. Truly appreciate you stopping by. What kind of airplane are you looking at building?

Hi ya great to be in contact with you. I’ve flown and built RC all my life the old conventional way when there were no ARTF, so clued up well on building thankfully. Just bought myself a Atomstack A10 pro and loving it. I’m working like you in LightBurn and appreciate your videos so much. I have a question if you can throw any light on it. I’m having trouble when printing my pdf plans to scale regards to how many A4 sheets to print in no poster tile print. I’ve wasted I can’t tell you how much A4 paper and ink guessing, and guessing wrong, thus my plans g C coming out the wrong size and not to scale. I wonder if there’s a magic routine sequence of thumb to get this correct to print to the correct size of the plan. Just to have got me going , I’m building the old school Super 60 originally Ben Buckle build. I’ve filled your knowledge and aquired the vector plan from OZ to start me off but like I say just cannot get the print out size correct. It seems if I go either a way with the number of pages to print, it still doesn’t come out to the correct size. The only thing I haven’t fiddled with is the two options ( fit to scale or scale) Im sorry my post to you is so long, almost as long as the distance between us lol, but I have so many questions and can’t tell you how grateful I am to have come across you sharing the same hobby that we both love. Incidentally where are you located? I’m in central England Notts Sherwood Forest Robin Hood country. Again so great to be in touch my friend, John.

I am located....as they say...Deep in the heart of Texas. Abilene Texas if you wanna look it up on a map. You probably could have guessed that by my southern draw on my vids. LOL I have a solution to your problem. It will be in my video, Printing large plans at home. The only thing I can think of right off hand is...are you loading the digital plan in lightburn before you try printing? cause that is do-able but more difficult. You'll need to watch my video on Scaling and printing in Lightburn for that. Simply download the pdf from Outerzone and open it in so form of Adobe reader, The free kind works well for me. It will offer options to print in Poster format. I would like to hear more about your Atomstack a 10 laser. I've been looking at those and some other brands for a new/more powerful laser setup in my shop. Thinking ahead to large scale light-ply bulkheads. Anyhew,,,we need to find a way to communicate cause I'd love to see pictures from England. If you want you can e-mail me at terrymf532@gmail.com

It’s an Xtool D1 with an extension added. I had to change the software from D1 to D1 pro to get Lightburn to recognize the entire size which is now somewhere around 17 inches wide and 36 inches long of usable space. It’s the standard 10 watt laser, which will hopefully soon have air assist and a camera system for doing overlays in Lightburn. Ooopppss. Spoiler alert!!

The paper plans are printed straight from the pdf file from Outerzone using my "Print Plans at Home" video. Also, the same Outerzone file I opened in Lightburn and hand traced the parts for cutting out the High Five on my laser using my video called "My Process" (parts 1 and 2). Lightburn will open pdf plans but if they are PDFbitmap then you'll have to trace them with Lightburn or by hand in Lightburn. Look under the Advance tab on Outerzone for plans in PDFvector that are ready to cut on a laser. Also cad plans will open in Lightburn if they are DXF. DWG plans will need to be converted to DXF. There are several online conversion sites available. My Beginner videos will help with a lot of these practices. Thanks for checking out my vids!!!

I honestly don't remember. It was some off-brand thing from Amazon. Kinda like this: www.amazon.com/SCULPFUN-Ultra-Fine-Compressed-Protection-Fixed-Focus/dp/B09MQMXXGD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3AV5YP06YY9IE&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8iz7LHag67hQlLmTtPf4a3_yi3jn-oo0Qa4L3Hyqu0LnZo__rrv1wdHzjsJEuGqtX21ySX5S5kyjKbIAjTbAy5Rb53uOx78rABzMimypgwJ9G1W0TnQG_J9smsduF5txY5zuyDwnUAOayBRz_rmYeDEcSiysjB-XGXQDIYhhAdWj-d-5f3gd83a87_iE9DHM_zuuBpJznJ7J-iE_WYafAVIcH0hnJV2MiR3QFp7O41vq_Xb4tn4kADB52cAhvrm54rrmjCXX1Y1DWudvVZIed5jQrAlz_FctT2yW7Tv6cs4.HCImuYHhLNJ0JcAExnQda4BGmteQ9eBui-_siyCVmIE&dib_tag=se&keywords=laser%2Betcher%2Bmachine&qid=1713152272&sprefix=laser%2Betcher%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-4&th=1

@@lazerbuilderrc1536 Thank so much. It is difficult to piece through the power and type required to cut the materials needed.

I have been looking at these. Cheaper and more value than my Xtool 10 watt. atezr.com/collections/laser-engraver

I too, was very surprised that I could dial my laser down, cold enough to make the cut without damaging anything it’s low power, high speed, and the curling you saw in the video was actually from the role being rolled up tight for years. Appreciate you checking out my videos!!!

I hope that you find as I have that taking away some of the hard work with the laser makes building the airplane so much more fun.

Thank you for chiming in here. I was wondering if air assist would work better. You have confirmed my theory.

Thanks sir

Thank you for the kind words. I hope it opens minds and furthers creativity. As for myself, using a laser has made building balsa, airplanes, fun again

Interesting, I'm a giant scale rc builder and bought a Atzer pro 20 watt to burn parts using Lightburn and thus far not having a great deal of success using the machine/ Lightburn@@lazerbuilderrc1536

I’ve been looking at the Atzer 24watt but wouldn’t think it would be a good beginner laser. Are you looking at building something from Outerzone or Aerofred? I wouldn’t mind at all helping you get the plan set up in Lightburn and then emailing it back to you. Assuming it’s OK with you that I make a video out of the work I did on the plans.

Right now I'm learning all I can , when I'm ready for assistance I ill get back to you, I have not decided what I will select for a plan set.Thanks for your offer to help. Bill@@lazerbuilderrc1536

No problem guy. I would encourage you to stick with it. Once you get past the learning curve you’ll discover things that you wish had been available 20 years ago.

Exactly, right!! And in the event of a total destruction of your aircraft, you simply go back to the laser start cutting again That’s why I believe I got the name of this site, correct lol.

First off thank you for the kind words. And consider this, if all you did was cut ribs and bulkheads, you would save yourself hours and hours of time and it really does make the art of scratch building balsa Planes fun again. Now if I could just figure out how to get the laser to do all the finish sanding I would be set for life. lol.

Lightbourn will accept a number of different document types like PDF or DXF. It doesn’t like DWG but there’s lots of places online you can change a DWG to a DXF most everything on Outerzone is in some form of PDF. Thanks for checking out the vid.

Thanks very much for you insight and fast response@@lazerbuilderrc1536

It’s an original D1 with 10watt laser, extension kit and overpriced honeycomb bed. Payed for an air assist as well but never received it. Almost bare bones system.

Oh. I did have to download and use the D1pro software to get the laser to run the full extension. You may have spotted that and some of the videos I can run it off the original D1 software, but it will only use half the table size. With the 10 W diode laser even without an air assist I can cut quarter inch hardwood in a single pass. It’s just a very slow pass.

What you’re seeing in the video is just the highlights. Nobody wants to go to a rock concert and see all the practice and rehearsals and arguing in the background and all the hard work that goes into it. They just wanna see the show and that’s all this is. Thank you so much for checking on my videos.

And you have now set the lazy builder RC record for the longest post. Absolutely lots of good tips there things that I should mention more often in my videos regarding safety such as goggles fire extinguisher plenty of air ventilation all good points I appreciate you taking the time to mention those things.

Do you have a laser now or is it just something you’re looking to do in the future? Or do I need to start a Patreon account and cut short kits?

@@lazerbuilderrc1536 i currently do not have a lazer every time I look at them I end up not sure what to get and the price of some is quite high so I never hit the buy button.

I have seen a couple out there that have extension kits available. It has lowered my stress level a lot once I extended my laser. Especially cutting RC Airplane parts. So far I have not needed more than 10watts of power out of the laser but you really cant go wrong getting more power as well. So consider workspace 1st and then power.

Appreciate that!! Thanks for tuning in.

I discover different things all the time. It'll do a lot more than I need for rc airplanes. Thank you for checking out my vids.

Lightburn. I think it's updated to the latest version, not completely sure. Might look strange because I re-arranged the screen.

Appreciate that, sir, but the truth is I only started doing these videos because I was having to repeatedly explain myself face-to-face with individuals one at a time who were curious about how I was doing this sort of thing so these videos help me to have more time to fly by simply referring their questions to Lazy Builder RC. lol

Appreciate the kind words I got lots to show but not near enough time in the day. lol.

I have to agree. At least as far as engineering goes. Much easier when dealing with tight tolerances.

Could be done with a scroll saw, or a bandsaw, but probably not that straight at least if I was doing it.

You're welcome

National Balsa, Balsa USA, and Hobby Lobby. I like Hobby Lobby only because I can walk in and hand pick the wood without any additional charge. The online places are good and have an excellent selection but you'll wanna buy in bulk to justify shipping charges. Thats really cool that you can model in Fusion. I have some old plans I'd like to digitize and change a few things. But for now, I got lots of other projects going. Thanks for subscribing.

Thanks for the info ….👍🏻 I went to our hobby lobby and grabbed a few sheets to practice with. They didn’t have much, half of the items were out of stock. nothing bigger than 3” wide. Looks like I’m going all in with Balsa USA.

A good choice, I have several Sig Senior Cadets and one Mark 2.

Love flying Senior Cadets when I just want to relax and cruise the sky.

Thanks for the kind words. More on the way.

It works and can be done a lot faster than piecing together 1/4 square sticks. Thanks for watching!!!

Thank you for the kind words and I will do the best I can to keep the videos coming.

I appreciate the positive comment. Thank you for watching.

There is defiantly a learning curve. I didn't ever build very many things by hand before but, now that I'm getting a little better with this laser I find that I am a little more inspired to tackle more complicated projects. I would suggest that you take a lot of notes as you work and then you can go back and adjust if something doesn't work right. I am the most impatient person on this planet but stubbornly kept working at it until now I can have a plane ready to cut out in about an hour of work in Lightburn. I started with just cutting ribs and bulkheads. Everything else I continued to do by hand. (which I really hate ) Start small and fairly easy. Maybe something out of Outerzones CAD plans of PDF vector section. Those will work straight away in Lightburn. Thank you so much for checking out my vids..hopefully they will help you build your favorite aircraft.

Thats very kind of you to say. Sometimes it takes me a minute to understand what I'm saying as well...HA HA Happy flying!!!

Glad you enjoy it...Lots more to come.

On your very top menu select "window" and put a check mark by which ever ones you want to appear. I use "Move, Cut, and Color Layers" most. (Move will allow jogging). Also on "Move" ...go back to the top menu and select "Edit" then "Device Setting". On this I have the following settings...Laser Offset = Off, Enable Laser fire button =On, Laser on when framing = ON. If you do this then on your Move screen you will want to set your Laser power kinda low so it will light up but not make any mark on your material during Framing. Thank you for checking out the channel, Please subscribe if you haven't already... from Abilene TX

Thank you for your response, you have been most helpful, I look forward to your next video particularly as it pertains to RC/Laser@@lazerbuilderrc1536

Its defiantly not something I practice a lot so yes, there will be room for improvement. Happy Building !!

thank you@@lazerbuilderrc1536

www.buddyrc.com/products/ztw-beatles-programming-card

Its my understanding that they have a card specific to each ESC. I have not tried using a different one, however, check the manual, because setting up an ESC from your radio may be possible with all their ESC's.

Might check " Tools-Adjust Image-Negative image or maybe "Invert Display".

Maybe my "Print and Cut" video will help with this?