Laser Scrap Bins

The laser cutting area has bins of material offcuts that are available to all laser cutter users. If you have material offcuts that are large enough and regularly-shaped, you can donate them to the laser scrap bins. But please do not use these bins as your offcut trash bins. Again, please do not dump waste into the scrap bins. Below are examples of usable and unusable scraps.

This is good scrap, feel free to put this back neatly in the scrap organizer:

This scrap should be trimmed down before it is put back in the scrap area:

Feel free to use the bandsaw or scroll saw to cut off the lasered areas of scrap that looks like this. DO NOT CUT ACRYLIC ON THE TABLE SAW or it will trip the saw stop.

Also try to make the most of the scrap material. The piece at the top of this photo could probably have had the two circular parts cut closer to the corners and on the same side of the stock so that there is a larger, and more continuous, piece of material left over. The bottom piece should be cut close to the right side so that all of the lasered section can be thrown in the trash with very little waste.

This is bad scrap, just throw pieces like this away:

Please keep the trash cans away from the fire extinguisher, and ideally inside of the taped off green area on the ground and consider taking out the trash when it is getting, or is already, full 🙂