Wow, a mirror alignment video that actually covers the science of alignment instead of just going over the basics of centering; your my hero! Would have never guessed the position of A if you had not shown the sticky notes explaining the geometry and how it relates to your machine (seems counterintuitive that you wouldn’t aim for in between C & D). Bravo sir, keep up the good work!

I was unable to align my laser on my CO2 machine. until I came across your video on KZread. you are the only one who explains the ACD method and that made it a lot clearer to me. Thank you very much for the effort you took to make the video. Thanks from the Netherlands, Arjan Staal

I've watched dozens of alignment videos and this was the one that gave me my "Aha" moment. I probably have 8-10 hours of alignment attempts and had gotten nowhere. I used your A-C-D method and had all four corners lined up within 30-45 minutes. Thank you!

I'm too embarrassed to tell you for how long i''ve lost the battle of the mirrors. Your explanation has cleared the fog of (mirror) war and I'm ready to do battle again. Thanks Vince. Its great having you in the trenches. You deserve a medal!

dude this is the ONLY VIDEO ON K40 ALIGNMENT THAT MATTERS!!!! Thank you!!!!!

Best alignment video of the K40 mirrors of ALL TIME!!!

By far the best alignment video

Thank you sir. For those who are facing trouble in this alignment thing, this is the best video SOLUTION!

I cannot thank you enough for this. I struggled with my K40 yesterday for over an hour and got it within a couple millimeters but couldnt nail it down. But I saw this in my suggested videos today and thought I'd watch it. AND I AM SO GLAD I DID!!! I literally had it dialed in within 10 minutes. THANK YOUSO MUCH!!

I've watched endless hours of alignment videos and spent 5 months trying to get my OMT 80W aligned with no luck. Watched your video, had my "aha" moment and had it sorted out in 20 minutes. My laser burns perfectly now. Can't thank you enough. Excellent video!

After many alignment attempts we finally watched this...Wow, really helped, so much!!!!

Best alignment video on KZread. Thank you. Speeded things up a great deal and as easy as ACD!

Just wanted to drop a Thank You! I just got my K40 set up and followed this guide. It was spot on. Did a test burn and looking forward to this new toy.

Thanks for this video, absolute life saver! Ive watched a few others but this one turned hours of frustration into a 20min job and its sorted. much appreciated!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for uploading this video. Best alignment guide ever.

Oh we're doing vectors I'm very excited

Explained so well! I watched many videos to align mirrors and this one has got me spot on.

Thank you, this was very helpful. All aligned - if not exactly quickly, at least quicker than it would otherwise have been for my first attempt! Good work, thanks again.

Informative without being boring! Thanks for this helpful video!

I've been fighting with aligning the mirrors. This video saved the day. Understanding the difference between aligning and centering is huge. Also recognizing there is only one spot that is aligned and finding that spot is critical to understand. Kudos for sharing this!

Genius! This is by far the best alignment method as it gives you a predictive target to aim for. I spent hours with other methods and had the laser aligned in about 30 minutes with this method. Thank you!

After hours trying to align my K40 I found your video then I could perfectly align my mirrors. Best explanation ever, thankyou!

VINCE YOU ARE THE MAN, DAMN IT SAVED ME SO MUCH TIME

Thank you for making this, the ACD helped amazingly. Turned hours of fiddling into minutes of adjustment.

Thanks for breaking this down! I spent hours trying to align my first machine... watched your video and had it aligned in 7 minutes! Thanks🤙🤙

This is the best guide for alignment. Thank you.

Easiest method I have seen. I will use this from now on. Thank you for sharing.

very cool alignment method. just did it on my k40. Thanks for the tip.

Thank you very much! Never thought the alignment point was outside the near and far points! I have been beating on a Blue Chinese for # days! That fixed it in 15 minutes!

Thank you. I was struggling with getting my K40 aligned. It took me less than 5 minutes after following your steps.

Vince a lot of good info for what you showed us .nice one.I like it.

Thanks so much! I've watched a lot of videos on laser mirror alignment, and your ACD method is the best I've found. Unlike many descriptions yours is based on logic, the appliance of science. It cuts out most of the trial and error and speeds up the task immeasurably 👍👌

Thank you so much! My K40 came in all busted. Corners were caved in and even the rails have dents. After all those hours i wanted to buy me a new one but now it still gets aligned. Big relief.

Fantastic video.

The best method for alignment by far!!! Thank you lots!! You made my day. I just unboxed my laser and throw a splitted beam. I started looking for solutions. I've readed that the problem was the tube. But thanks to your video I managed to make a quick and dirty alignment and even with a quick and dirty alignment works fantastic!!! I really appreciate your effort in doing this video. Greetings from Barcelona

Genius! Thanks so much! I almost threw this thing out LOL Watched this 2 times to really grasp the fact that I had to think backwards in my aiming process. Laser aligned now and so simple. AAA+

I bought a k40 around Christmas last year.. out of the box it worked okay to get me started. After the holidays i changed airassist , ventilator , and and mirrorset/laser head. That is when the problems started. Couldn't get the alignment right. Got only crips cut at one side of the bed... Last week i spend hours of trying en errors.. until i took my time to watch this video a couple of times , take notes and a couple of tries... You are my hero!! It works like a charm now! Crisp cuts all over the bed.. and i have been able to get super settings (power/speed) instead of almost blowing the tube .. thank you , thank you , thank you!!

Great video!!! Thanks for making this

Really great way! Thank you!

Thank you so much for this video! My machine is now aligned. Respectfully - Hank

Yhank you for this. You just saved me a lot of trouble.

My machine is 60W, China's machine. Work well with this method. Thank you so much

Wish I would have seen this a couple days ago. I spent several hours over the last week trying to align my laser after getting it out of storage, where it sat for several years. I finally figured out on my own to align the beam and move the mirror later but for my peace of mind I still needed to verify my theory was correct. I finally found a YT video that did verify it but it was explained so poorly that I would have never understood what he was trying to teach had I not first figured out the procedure for myself. I wasted days using a laser pointer tool that mounted in the head and the tools instructions stated to aim for the middle of the mirrors. After ditching that, I got the alignment pretty close after about an hour, which included undoing some of the things I tried to get it working when I didn't know the correct procedure. If I do understand correctly, you have to start with the first mirror and get it centered to the tube, then use the first mirror to align the beam to the y axis. Then move the second mirror to center on the beam. Then align the beam to the x axis with the second mirror and then move the head to center the beam. I'm not sure how it was suppose to work when using a pointer mounted in the head. It means going in the opposite ordered which doesn't seem to work.

thanks for the guide :)

Thanks you’re the best

Thank you so so much

thank you sooo muchhhh

Great video. That will totally solve my alignment problem. Do you have a video that shows the mods you made on the control panel and gantry?

Thanks for the video. It was very helpful, compared to other videos out there. I have a question for you, hopefully you can help. I am working with a Ruida controller, and when I try to run a file the head it trying to go off of the table and it is banging into the wall. Do you know how I can adjust this so that it is squared up on my workspace properly?

Just wanted to say Thank you.. I am a newbee, just got a k40, and was able to align using this guide, how ever my cuts are angled, , not straight. any idea as to why is that.

I would buy you a pint for that !!!Thanks

Alining an led laser

I bought my laser used. While aligning my #2 mirror is not all the way against the mount like yours is in the video. Should I return the mirror closer to the mount and start over with alignment

where did you get that bed and how did you modify the axis gantry?

@philsowers

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I too am looking to expand my k40 bed as well! Subscribed for more content!!!

Can anyone help. I hardly use my K40 and just today when I went to engrave, my text was all squished down... then even tough I can fire the test laser, it stopped engraving. Any ideas? :/ I feel like this happened before and it was an easy fix. but I have not idea. I don't use it a lot (very rarely in fact) so I don't think it's the tube or power supply ....

Any one know what my problem can be, I do an engraving then go to cut it out and the cut is of by 1cm or so??

I hit mirror 3 everywhere on the bed at exact center but I only get good engraving result in the front right side, the left back side is horrible. How can that be the case if I hit mirror 3 at exactly the same spot everywhere?

@Rock-Licker

3 ай бұрын

Your 3rd mirror isn’t aligned then… However it should not be positionally linked if the 2nd and 1st are fine; are you sure it actually hits the same spot in all four corners of your machine. Did you ever solve this issue?

@13hubi13

3 ай бұрын

@@Rock-Licker ​​⁠Everything was aligned perfect, i found out why it happened. My 100W Co2 laser tube had a damage in the lense where the beam comes out. I dont ever have seen anyone talk about this part or mention it, i finally saw it when i zoomed with my Smartphone camera into mirror 1 and then i saw that on the lense of the laser tube that produces the beam was a little spot that wasnt dust or so it was a damage and that resulted to my problem. I was lucky that i saw it after 10 or 11 months later buying the laser so i got a new 100W tube send to me.

@Rock-Licker

3 ай бұрын

@@13hubi13 Good catch! My lens is also a bit wonky; everything’s aligned and it constantly pushes it to the very bottom left when coming out of the tube; so far no effect on engraving or cutting but it makes it very difficult to do inlay’s (it becomes more noticeable there’s a slight angle on thicker material)

How do you know which screws to adjust on the mirror mounts please?

@GaryMcKinnonUFO

4 жыл бұрын

If you adjust them while watching the mount move you'll see which screw does which. From memory, the top screws rotate it left and right around vertical (yaw) and the bottom screw rotates it up and down around the horizontal (pitch), but i haven't done it for a while so it's best to try yourself, you can plainly see how the mount responds when you turn each of the screws. I think this man also has a laser diode attached to the primary mirror so that he can align without firing the laser initially, but i'm only 2 mins in.

@akudunniadsbig3837

3 жыл бұрын

@@GaryMcKinnonUFO Watching the mirror from behind: Bottom Left moves horizontally left right; Top Right moves vertically up an down; Bottom Right moves diagonally Up-Left and Down-Right, but the best thing to do is to leave this one untouched if you can manage to do it with the other two.

@GaryMcKinnonUFO

3 жыл бұрын

@@akudunniadsbig3837 Thanks for that :)

This looks messy and my LC didn't come savety glasses 😬😵

I’m a moron, watched this a few times. I can’t get my second mirror to hit the same spot at all. Help please!!

I don't understand, when aligning the 2nd mirror with the head, you start in bottom left position, get your center mark on the tape that's around the laser head, then move it far away, take another test shot, and see how far away that second shot is from the first.. which by what you're saying is test shot 'D'. Why not just now adjust the screws on the second mirror to get that D to match up with the C shot? I don't see a reason to "find A"

@Rock-Licker

3 ай бұрын

I know your comment is super old but they won’t match up unless the mirror is aligned in the proper position (the A mark), I thought the same thing at first but they will always be off (albeit you can make the gap lesser because you will be closer to A by shooting for C) because that’s not the true proper alignment of the mirrors. When he shows the sticky notes on his machine this is giving you the visual, the C position is closest to the mirror so it is closer to showing the true alignment of the mirror than D hence why it’s “outside of C” because your 3rd and 2nd mirror aren’t touching there is about a 1/10th distance gap compared to a 10/10 distance gap between D & true alignment

3 right 4th can't do it...

@danieljnribeiro

3 жыл бұрын

Any help pls