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Originally Posted by NWChen
How was your experience lasercutting a bellypan from 1/4" thick ABS? I've read that ABS tends to curl and melt rather than vaporize under a laser.
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Not on 254, but lots of laser cut ABS parts on my robot this year, most from 1/4". It's not too hard to do, but it takes a little trial and error. Multiple passes, playing with the feed rate and power level, and making sure your air / ventilation is good are all good steps to try. After some tweaking (approximately 1 practice robot worth of parts tweaking) it was pretty easy to get a quick and consistent part out of the laser cutter. This made manipulator fabrication quick and easy for us.