Help with clear acrylic
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:05 pm
Hello all, so this week i started messing with some clear acrylic on my new xtool S1 and my initial testing was pretty reviling. Material tested 2 different size sheets, one was around 1/4 thick from Home Depot and the others were a led sign kit i got off of Amazon with 10 pieces that are around 1/8 thick and 10 led bases. I ran a material test i bought off of Etsy in xtool creative space and the 1/4 piece was positive results, the entire card was good clear markings. The 1/8 stuff on the other hand went really bad and 3/4 of the card was completely burned and cracked only 30-10% power and the three highest speed setting produced clean engravings. I then started trying to engrave the 1/8 with a 49ers helmet for a game day gift but none of them produced good results. 200 speed and 10% power barely marked the acrylic (see pic) so i went back and adjusted the next test to 185 speed and 20% power that one was much better, but some of the spots got to hot and cracked, the last one was 185 speed and 15% power and it had spots where the engraving was streaked or just didn’t engrave. Anyone have a suggestion to get a good engraving? This testing almost makes me want to just ditch the 1/8 and only use thicker materials since they obviously take the engraving better at higher power, the. I could just make my own light bases out of wood since none of the ones on Amazon seem wide enough to take thicker acrylic.