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[jeejeedr]

@jeejeedr : what are the powers of those lasers do you guess?

Not much, some milliwats, but the build quality is super. Replacing the pump diode should not be much of a problem.

The mentioned Dlab2plus also comes in a gas version featuring an argon laser.

[jeejeedr]

Jesus I did not hear of Agfa-gevaert for 20 years

They're still around. A lot of small photo labs still use them. Here at work we kicked them out some years ago, but just now they were moved from the basement to the thrash heap.

[mixedgas]

For really nice innova tubes you want coherent 900 , 920, and 930
series. Dont take a a 800 or 890 unless it is free, the tubes are ancient quartz/graphite. Beware of the open dye resivoirs that often live in 920s and 930s.

Sometimes you get lucky and its a dual sled, a AR/KR pair.

About 1/3 the eye surgery lasers will have visible lasers of yag or argon, look for zeiss, meditec, alcon, coherent, surgilase, but 2/3rds of medical is IR. Biophysic is another candidate.



Also look for cell sorters, flow cytometry, confocal microscopes (although destroying a working confocal might be considered sacrilege to me, Lava, and Tocket)
If you find the right confocal you score cambridges and and the laser(s).
Newspaper prepress often comes with either big diodes or a argon, and medical X-Ray plotters are where the SP124/127/JDSU1145 henes come from.

Nifty lasers come in units that do RAMAN and Brillioun Scattering, as well as certain older "particle Counters" for air mesurements.

nearly anything by Biorad labs

Curestar dental curing have laser physics 250 mW reliants in them. A few older dental curers have the blue version of the melles griot DPSS in them.

If you want the big pulsed dyes that can blow holes in things, those are by Candela

Steve

[jeejeedr]

Another interresting find it did a while ago are the accusort industrial barcode scanners (model 24 and model 24i).

These containt hexagonal gold plated mirrors and a 'very' good mount for red laser diodes with TEC cooling.
Also the extruded alu housing is a perfect case for a green laser with scanner and electronics.
I found those in the trash at my previous work (I made software for airports).

[FourDee]

Damn that looks nice

[jeejeedr]

Damn that looks nice

Too bad I found them in the airport of Montreal. There were 10 pieces or so. I stripped all but one and took the internals with me along with the remaining one. That one I'm stripping now as a case for a small rgv laser.

[GooeyGus]

hey Steve, do you know if there is anything good inside those kodak "dryview" laser imagers? Maybe the 8900 model in particular?

[jeejeedr]

hey Steve, do you know if there is anything good inside those kodak "dryview" laser imagers? Maybe the 8900 model in particular?

The laser inside that machine is a 100mw 810nm.

[colouredmirrorball]

If my results are good, my dad will bring a gas laser from his work (he's an informaticus on the university)!

[GooeyGus]

The laser inside that machine is a 100mw 810nm.

thanks! Do you know of any laser imagers with anything worthwhile in them? I have access to a whole bunch