great video I just bought a D1 and am starting to learn I will keep watching only had it for a week so its all new to me you are very helpful

Great video thanks I have been searching for uv shielding acrylic or polycarbonate without success. Amber cast acrylic is readily available and not too costly 😊

Great demonstration with orange acrylic. I think your experiment was complete. Audio from new Mic continues to work well. Noise cancelation is excellent without sacrificing voice clarity. Thank you for sharing your experiment with us.

Sounds good tonight. Thanks for the video. Great work as usual. Just bought my XTool 10w and got your jig. AMAZING!!!

Thank You to Clack Shack, I love the Videos and I purchased your Jig Templates.

Big difference with the window. Great work!

Thanks for the demonstration. I'm gathering stuff to build an enclosure and debated about the orange acrylic. I'm going to add it now to the project. Still will depend upon my glasses but anything to reduce the amount of light escaping will be added protection. Thanks for sharing and taking the time to produce these videos. Great stuff.

Very helpful. Thank you 🙂

Thanks for the thoughtful and well-made video. I know I am late to the party, but I want to point out a couple of possibilities, including a simple way to test this further. There is a possibility of something part way between pure transparency, and 100% blockage of the laser light. And that is a partial blockage in which you can cut it with enough persistence, but some leakage is still getting through. In regard to this remember it doesn’t take nearly as much to damage your eye as it takes to cut the acrylic. So this simple test should reveal how effective the non-certified orange acrylic is. Run a “cut test” on both a sheet of black acrylic and a sheet of the translucent orange acrylic, with the exact same spread of varying cut speeds / power settings, and the exact same thickness of acrylic. Look at the different square cut attempts that were run at different speeds / different power settings, and see which ones punched all the way through on the black, and which ones didn’t. Compare that to the same squares on the same test on the orange acrylic. If the orange and black are showing the same degree of cut versus non-cut, then it indicates the orange is preventing laser leakage just as well as the black is.

Great test. I was wondering the same thing about the difference. Not sure what the thoughts are on this, but I gave the inside of my enclosure a quick coat of flat black spray paint to help reduce reflection. No proof it works, just a theory my brain would not let me move on from...

Great video! very informative. Thank you for your hard work and answering most of my questions. I do have one question: Can A different colored translucent acrylic/plexiglass work besides orange?

Well done as usual. Mic sounds great. What lift poundage is your piston? Are you still using your downdraft for smoke removal? Go Georgia, beat Alabama LOL.

Hello, Did you ever test the orange window tint film? Was thinking of using orange film/vinyl in a window screen frame for my window. I have the extension rails on my d1, so looking into that for a larger viewing window

I know you wouldn't want to waste a pair of glasses, but would be interesting to see how running the same test on the glasses would turn out. That said, it looks like certified glass from what I assume is a reputable company looks to be roughly twice the cost. If this is something being used often, it seems like it'd be worthwhile to spend the extra money once to both know you're safe and know that it's okay to use without glasses. Still waiting on my 20w xTool to be shipped but loving the videos!

I know I am a little late, but went over to the community page to find the poll and try to get information. Did you put together the video you were thinking about in this video? I am just starting about 6 months into my laser journey and trying to get as much information on how to sell to pay for my toys. As always great video and an awesome build. I am waiting for my extension rails to come before starting to build my enclosure. The products I am interested in making and selling are 24 to 26 inches long and I need the extension to make this work. Thanks again.

Later in some videos it - appears you have a smoke and detector in the ebclosure, is that correct. Does the contact exhaust allow a detector in the enclosure. If it would it would be great.

What is the roll of tint you showed? Did you use it in addition to the orange acrylic? I have a clear plexiglass enclosure and would be ideal to tint it instead of buying orange acrylic.

Eggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggslent video and content. Thanx for sharing

Just wondering why the plastic shield around the laser is orange but they send a pair of green glasses with my XTool D1.

Do you have plans for your encloser xtool?

May I ask what is the height of your enclosure? And do you use a camera for lightburn?

How did you attach the glass to the enclosure

They are using orange acrylic on the bottom of the laser itself. That is not OD4, it is fine. Right?

Is that the 20w ?

J tech Photonics sells actual laser rated acrylic 250nm to 520nm Laser Shielding - 12″ x 12″ for $16.99

A 10W D1 laser has a power density equivalent to 1,500 suns. That means the spot where the laser hits the material is 1,500 times brighter than if the material were laid out in the sun at noon at the equator. Let's just work through an example. Let's say that the orange plexiglass blocks 80% of the laser light. That would be like running your laser at 80% and the acrylic would still absorb 80% power--enough to cut the plexiglass--but it would also allow 20% or 300 suns through the material. So, I don't think you can make the case that since you can cut plexiglass that the protection is as good as OD4 goggles which block 99.99% of the laser light, letting only 0.01% through the goggles. For a 10W D1, OD4-rated material will only pass about 1/6th of a sun, which is pretty safe. To know if it works for sure, you'd need a meter to measure how much laser light is passes through your orange plexiglass to know it's as safe as OD4 goggles.

What are the dimensions of the acrylic piece?