Laser conversion from pointer to burn Answered

Well, I couldn't find it here with the search tool, so maybe it WAS somewhere else _{as dontgoogle wrote}

I can just imagine: "Hey has anyone seen the blowtorch? I just really feel like burning something." That was awesome.

I don't know... Sometimes it seems very important I find it... So far it's been like cooking while drinking, stick a kebab menu to the fridge and one on the oven, saves me a lot of destruction...

Ah it would if it
#1: worked,
&
#2: didn't significantly lessen the life of the laser diode _{which I fear it might} :-)

Aw come on Goodhart - it's a guy thing (like not asking for directions) - you will figure it out.

Um, maybe not (I ask for directions when I don't know where I am at ;-)

*chuckle* I am weird that way.....^{_{and I pick up the underwear my wife drops on the floor throughout the house, an the wadded up papers that miss the trash can when she tossed them here and there, do the wash, etc. & etc. ;-)}}

Are you for hire?

Sadly, at the moment, I do all that without pay. I guess I would be, except I don't have any spare time to do it for anyone else ;-)

Well hooey! If you ever need any household hints let me know, I hope your wife realizes what a treasure you are!

She complains that I don't do enough, i.e. I don't do it all. Now, if she worked outside the house, I would do more. I just wish she could learn to deal with her anxiety attacks, as I have.

Sometimes folks need to be pointed in the right direction Goodhart, maybe the next time you are doing something invite her to come help you with it, let her know you NEED her help and how much you appreciate it. I have a friend who had anxiety attacks and she would get almost child like and almost had to hold her hand to get her through a task but eventually her self esteem raised to the point that she got to where she started looking for ways to help and came out of it pretty good.

I could have sworn it was an ible; but like I also posted, my memories are a bit muddled at times.... ;-)

Seems to me that it would probably shorten the life of the laser diode tremendously.....ah well, maybe I saw it at another site? *shrug*

No it wasn't but thanks for the attempt.

no, it was just a little singe less then one watt laser

I think the one you are talking about is the wood burning one that used fiber optics inside of a mechanical pencil btw, be safe! There's already a dispute in kipkey's recent bic laser

I don't know. My memory if fuzzy it seems *sigh*.
I thought it mentioned altering the circuitry of a regular pen laser so it would have a bit more power in the output. But I could be mistaken...

The wood burning one, isn't it (I just looked again to make sure).

BTW, which particular dispute are you speaking of :-) There appears to be several...

I saw this, but I thought there was one using a regular pointer laser