No chemicals, no water, no dust, no clean-up!

Awesome. But there is something left from it. It's not "zero emissions" as the video claims. If the laser is burning paint, or rubber off, it's not deleting it from existence, it's turning it into ash, smoke, and some other stuff.

But I still want one, really bad.

Brad

What does it run on? Pixie dust?

I loved the rust removal!

Good luck getting a license to have it. The limits are well below that for 'citizens'

Get the 1000w version!

quote Originally posted by Fats: Awesome. But there is something left from it. It's not "zero emissions" as the video claims. If the laser is burning paint, or rubber off, it's not deleting it from existence, it's turning it into ash, smoke, and some other stuff. But I still want one, really bad. Brad

Yeah, the video says it vaporizes the coating and vacuums the debris up, so they're collecting the emissions.
I would imagine all that vaporized exhaust would be incredibly toxic. It is really cool, but can you imagine trying to strip an entire car body and chassis with that thing, considering how small the area of effect is and how slow it takes to clear off a few square inches. Might be great for small parts.

Wow, hand held! I have worked on and repair lasers in the 1000 watt range and they were huge. But, of course they were 1st or 2nd generation lasers. We used them at GM for several things. First use was to heat a strip in the body of the recirculating ball steering units. They would put three hot stripes in the body which would harden the metal so that it didn't wear out as fast. We also used one in another plant to burn holes in the boots for the CV joints. The holes were so small water couldn't go through, but the air could.

When we were repairing them sometimes things got crazy and someone would focus the laser on the metal stand and it would burn a hole right through it. Of course this was a focused beam relatively small and not oscillating. Obviously this unit is moving the beam rapidly back and forth to prevent melting what is beneath the rust, paint or whatever.

These older lasers were about 30 to 40 feet long and 7 feet high with a marble plate with the laser tubes mounted on them. Obviously these newer ones are more solid state and much smaller too.

Nice tool but Zero Emission? Who says?

Depend on what material to remove, can be Toxic to burn many things. Lead Zinc and other coatings/paints/primers are bad. Can turn worse when burn or when fumes cool and react local air.

Vacuum and related parts that suck fumes/ash likely needs to meet OSHA EPA etc rules for vacuuming HAZMAT.
Wrong vacuum can contaminate an entire building.
Even w/o HAZMAT rating, a HEPA seal vacuum is a very good idea. Nano Size crap is not a good thing to breath etc.

Lead is bad? Some Lead Compounds are Worse. Raw Lead is easy to control. Vapor Lead and related Compound that you breath that can poison you fast. Others are skin absorb poisons too.
Zinc is good to coat metal. Zinc in air will quickly put people is the Hospital.

Latex Paint is mostly low or no toxic as paint, wet or dry. Pigments when burn is another story. Example: Titanium dioxide makes good white paint but you shouldn't to breath it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...de#Health_and_safety
If laser burn converts the pigment then to what? Ti Metal? Vaporize anything results in nano sized particles can cause health issues too, even if normal whatever are safe.

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I can't believe no one had said this:

quote Laser Stripper!

I expected something else.