Greetings and thanks for letting me join the forum. I purchased a VigoTec BX20 laser engraver and do not have the Preview, Confirm, and Start buttons shown in the user manual. I can move the laser with the arrow buttons on the VigoTec screen and the laser seems to focus well and burn the wood in one…

Greetings! I’m back already because I did finally get the laser engraver working and now I have new questions, I want to enclose this unit (VigoTec Bx20w laser engraver) with acrylic for safety reasons, What color acrylic would be appropriate for the wave-length of the 20W laser I am using, please? …

Good call on enclosing it for safety! @Adam_Haile made his Engravinator open source, and its BOM lists 2422 Orange acrylic but he notes that it hasn’t been lab-tested to block the blue laser .

You can get laser tested acrylic here; Laser Shielding Safety Gear By J Tech Photonics, Inc. J Tech Photonics, Inc. has laser shielding safety gear for sale on our website. Click the link above to order our safety gear today!

It works perfectly fine. My note there is just covering myself legally. It’s the same stuff that J Tech sells, just not lab tested for compliance with each batch (at least not from my supplier).

Thank you for the replies about the acrylic! I appreciate it.

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You can get laser tested acrylic here;

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