Texlem 2012 Saturday Videos

Workshop and LASER show videos taken Saturday. Although the instructors are shown doing the tasks, it was hands-on for all that wished to do it. These are MOV format, somewhat large files, didn't want to compress. Beware the sounds and music.. I had to go at about 9PM but the LASER shows went on all night. I'm normally a night owl but the day had pretty much wore me out with all the activity. Haha the younger folks and those that were not up at 4AM fared better!


100_0160.MOV
34.60 Mb
39 seconds. Cutting 3" plastic disks for warp wheels. Care must be used to cut at a very slow speed or the plastic may melt. The press was on the slowest speed and still melted the plastic. The bigger the saw, the greater the linear speed of the cut for a given spindle RPM.
100_0161.MOV
73.60 Mb
84 seconds. Cutting glass disks for lumia, cutting lube, the costs of glass cutters.
100_0162.MOV
152.45 Mb
174 seconds. Scoring the circle, making flare out cuts to break the glass away.
100_0163.MOV
45.43 Mb
51 seconds. Method of grinding the edges of the glass wheels to remove sharp edges.
100_0164.MOV
37.64 Mb
42 seconds. More method of grinding the edges of the glass wheels to remove sharp edges.
100_0165.MOV
41.62 Mb
47 seconds. Why it is important to check the candidate glass for effect before buying it. (beware "lumia glass assortments" sold for big dollars by non-interested parties (non-laserists) in various places, as most of the glass pieces won't be very interesting..)
100_0167.MOV
94.66 Mb
108 seconds. "Torture Tube" making demonstrated.
100_0169.MOV
92.15 Mb
105 seconds. More "Torture Tube" making demonstrated.
100_0175.MOV
58.68 Mb
68 seconds. "Warp Wheel making"
100_0176.MOV
24.25 Mb
27 seconds. More "Warp Wheel making" techniques.
100_0177.MOV
34.01 Mb
39 seconds. Using a wet stone to heat the wheel and bubble before warping. It is best to bubble one side, so the effect goes forward rather than reflect back to the operator.
100_0178.MOV
22.90 Mb
26 seconds. Using an old bird cage to form ridges in a wheel.
100_0179.MOV
36.79 Mb
42 seconds. More warp wheels, one very deformed.
100_0180.MOV
101.88 Mb
116 seconds. Vacuum forming demonstrations.
100_0181.MOV
55.19 Mb
63 seconds. Vacuum forming techniques and timings.
100_0182.MOV
41.91 Mb
47 seconds. Reworking an improperly formed sheet.
100_0183.MOV
74.97 Mb
85 seconds. Adding other objects to the 'mold' to produce even more varied effects.
100_0184.MOV
6.35 Mb
7 seconds. shot of a scanner test pattern. Beginning of scanner/projector workshop. (This is one of those "you had to be there" things.)
100_0187.MOV
62.34 Mb
73 seconds. Effect of servo gain and damping settings on test pattern.
100_0188.MOV
271.15 Mb
318 seconds. Various alignments of servos in a projector.
100_0189.MOV
28.45 Mb
32 seconds. Checking a test pattern, fine tuning.
100_0192.MOV
62.51 Mb
71 seconds. Some testing before the LASER show.
100_9831.MOV
75.46 Mb
86 seconds. Some testing before the LASER show.
100_9833.MOV
87.14 Mb
99 seconds. Camera in the 3W beam show. The beams were hugely expanded and still super-bright. By now the fog was stacking up!
100_9834.MOV
17.62 Mb
20 seconds. Going to set the 3W beamshow to a low level near the floor for safety reasons, but it sure looked great there between the mirrors in the studio.
100_9836.MOV
6.69 Mb
7 seconds. Graphics projector test pattern.
100_9837.MOV
4.89 Mb
5 seconds. Graphics projector test pattern.
100_9843.MOV
564.37 Mb
650 seconds. Demo of part of a show from 2012 New Years'. Dance Everybody Dance Dance! This is really cool, the camera can't do it justice at all and it may be hard for the PC to play due to no compression and very fast action..
100_9844.MOV
188.78 Mb
217 seconds. More N.Y.E show!
100_9845.MOV
122.78 Mb
141 seconds. Countdown to 2012..