Nice MagniVisor, the price was at my high limit until I switched to US dollars
and the price jumped to $43.47 and then add on $16.35 shipping. That total
came to $59.82 and maybe a few dollars more for taxes.
I found this one on US amazon for $21.99 plus 6 or $7 shipping.
You can get the Carson for $38: Amazon.com: Carson Pro Series MagniVisor Deluxe Head-Worn LED Lighted Magnifier with 4 Different Lenses (1.5x, 2x, 2.5x, 3x) (CP-60) : Carson: Health & Household from Amazon US as well.
Amazon usually automatically offers to switch to your locale store and shows the product there if it’s available.
That’s weird, I did a search for yours here and found nothing. I click on your link and there it is. That’s a lot better price now.
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Well my stepper came in Tues. I got to open it today. Talk about bad luck!!!
this new motor is lock so tight that you almost have to use a pair of pliers just to turn the motor. It’s already boxed up for return. What a piece of junk. This means more waiting.
Good news today!! It turns out that my new stepper has nothing wrong with it.
When holding the stepper in your hand and the red & black wires are touching, the motor is really hard to turn. Separate the two wires and it works fine. So I’m keeping and using the motor. Will be starting the assembly process tonight.
I also have to run down to Construction Bolt company and pick up a few new smaller bolts than what I have. Will get new pics up in a couple days
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OK - time for pic update. Here are three shots showing the actuator mounted to the front carriage
mounting plate.
#1 is looking at front of the whole rig.
#2 is looking at the side of the rig.
#3 is looking at how I mounted the actuator block to the front carriage plate. By mounting the the block to the carriage plate, the entire actuator will move up and down. With the laser plate mounted to the actuator itself, the back side. Doing it this way my laser can move up/down for the full 200 MMs. This way I just raise the laser all the way up, throw the glass tumbler under it and start etching.
All I have to do now is put it all back together.
Then I ready for testing out.
Once again I get to use to use the little ladies
dinning table to start building the evacuation box.
After that all left is to run my vacuum hose and the air supply from the garage through through
the attic and drop down in the laser room. And then I’ll be finished with this project.
I have already started thinking about a 4’ x 8’
laser made with all 4080 al. That should be fun !!
Randy
Well here it is. I need to put on one more piece of red wire wrap. I also need to tighten the belts a little bit. The X travel is to tight right now. I either need to loosen the belt a little or I have back off the tightness of the carriage roller wheels just a little.
I going to make a hanger bar to mount to the top of the actuator to hold the cables more upright so it looks cleaner and then try some burning tests.
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It’s fine to see you’ve come so far with your machine. I’m just a little worried if the weight of your Z axis will limit your speed too much, but we will know it when you are ready. You definitely have a lot of pleasure constructing and combining your machine. 
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Thank you Bernd: Just now got the loose ends fixed. Everything is free rolling now, feels good. Your right, there is a lot of weight which I’m sure it will reduce speed. What you can’t see in the pic is a second X travel piece of 2020 ex-alu
that is also bolted to the piece of 2040 that the carriage rolls on, this piece supports my drag chain. So you might say that my X cross member is “L” shaped 4040 ex. alu. Like you said, only one way to find out.
Now I ready for firing this thing up for movement testing. Still have to calibrate
the thing and set new working size. I lost about 1-1/2 " in the “Y” travel with the new actuator and motor and the way I had to mount it.
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… laser speed is also often overrated 
It may be that it is important in engraving images and similar tasks, but for cutting, speed is not what is crucial. Except paper and thin foam, I don’t have anything I can cut with over 50mm/s.
This mm/s is going to be a whole new thing to me. My other, (little), lasers are mm/m. I don’t think I ever burned anything over 1000 mm/m. And now we are talking about HOT RODS !! This is going to be fun ! I just thought of something, 50mm/s is equal to 3000 mm/m. Material defines cutting speeds, blast through balsa wood and crawl through hard wood. One more pic with roller/glass under laser. Right now the bottom of the laser is even with the bottom of the front carriage plate and there is about 1-1/4" space between laser and glass. The actuator can still go up another 1-1/2" and with the laser sliding mount plate, I can get another 2" of height. The glass in pic is 3-1/2" dia. and with another 3-1/2" lift, I can etch up to about 6" dia. glass, tumblers and what not.
I just thought of something, when I put down 3/16" aluminum plate base, so I don’t burn up the pretty wood floor and with honeycomb on top of the base plate I’ll loose maybe 1 to 1-1/2" height. Rats !!
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OOOOPS !!! I forgot to check power just before
I did a short test fire a couple of times and was not looking at the board but laser itself. which was only about 1 maybe 2 seconds laser fire. The head was 8" above the deck.
Shi … but now that you are ready with the machine you just cut a square around your mishap and make an intarsia
That’s a good idea !! Ivory, wood or bone for an inlay?
…depending on which room the damage occurred and how angry the wife is
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My little Cherokee wife is not made. That wood is a 4’ x6’ x3/4" stained red oak that the laser rig and the console is bolted down to. One of these days I know that I’ll have to move it so I’ll be bolting carrying handles on to it. Takes two people to move it.
Is your laser lens dirty / broken / properly installed?
Hello Redmud - I would guess it to be broken. The laser was mounted to an actuator that was to small and under powered. When I removed the laser I left
power and air all hooked up and carefully set the laser down on the bed standing upright. A few days later it got “tipped” over, by me and my clumsy hands, and now this. I’m contacting Laser Tree now to try to find a way to fix this thing or maybe get lucky and get a replacement on it. I don’t think a replacement is going to work seeing how I bought it in Sept. of 23. We will see. So until I can get this problem fixed, I’m shut down completely. I’ll give you an update after I here back from Laser Tree. So for now I’m throwing a blanket over it and I done with it. One thing I forgot to say is that the air nozzle is mounted to the laser so where is the light shinning through? Well I’ll find out after I hear back from L.T.
Randy
I would remove the air assist nozzle. Maybe the inner lens came off and is flopping in there. Worth a look.