K40 Adjustable Bed

I reworked the original in fusion 360 to give me a more rigid design.

K40 adjustable bed.

I wanted a simple manual belt driven adjustable height table for my chinese k40 laser. Bed s and jigs for the k40 laser machine change your bed. This is my first remix design. Check out all of our bedroom furniture for great deals and wholesale prices.

You save time of doing height adjustments or focusing point adjustment. Adjustable z axis bed laser cutter 40w k40. Please refer to the original design by brianvanh for more details on exactly how it goes together. Our k40 adjustable bed will streamline your engraves and save the hassle of having to chock up your items on different thickness items whenever you change object.

The optimal focus for these machines are 50 8mm focal point. Compare up to 4 products. In this article we upgrade the bed of the k40 laser cutter to a height adjustable honeycomb bed with scales for aligning the workpiece. To use the full width of the machine.

Adjustments are easily done with a screwdriver. 1 4 x 5 16 threaded rod 2 length works if you can find it 12 5 16 nuts 1 4 x 1 2 aluminum solid angle super ca glue expanded mesh for table platform can be. The first thing a lot of k40 laser cutter users tend to do is remove the workspace bed. When the machine arrives it s often installed with a metal bed and a big clamp.

The k40 chinese laser cutter is great but the build area is terrible. At costco you ll find adjustable beds capable of giving both you and your partner exactly what you want. The top of the bed cannot bend inward due to the upper frame and nuts holding it to the threaded rod posts. Although there are a lot of makeshift cutting beds out there so i suggest if you have a spare weekend free create your own at home.

This is why we engineered the adjustable honeycomb y axis table. This increases the work area allowing to engrave larger objects up to 300mm x 200mm. Combine the printed parts with parts from your local hardware store and you can make this pretty easily. You will get access to a laser focus tool file.

As the k40 laser cutter does not come with a moving z axis it s sometimes difficult and time consuming switching in between projects. Hopefully the pictures video make sense. With the original bed anything you put on top of the bed is out of focus it s actually inside the clamp. The stock bed of the k40 is completely useless and i don t know a single person that would actually use the clamp.

This make focusing all kinds of materials very easy and convenient.