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Noisy engraver and unclear, deformed engravings

This image shows the word hello


This article relates to having problems with your engraver. 

After 1 day of use, my engraver stopped working correctly, I am not sure what caused this but I wanted to get to the bottom of it and get my engraver working again.

If this happens there are a couple of things you can do to resolve this.

The first thing I would recommend is to use the buttons on top of the engraver and set the laser to go to the top left corner - once in place hold down the Play/Pause button for a few seconds and let go (make sure you have a piece of card in place to engrave on). This should act like a mini reset and could fix your problem. For me this did not work.

I then decided to take the machine apart. 

Disclaimer: I will not be held responsible for any damage you may cause to yourself and/or your laser engraver when doing this. Anything done is at your own risk!

First flip your machine over and undo the screws that you see


Remove the back cover



I checked to see if there was enough lubrication on the screw, for me it seemed fine, I then lifted the laser (together with the two long metal poles off of the screw to reveal the nut that it sits on. I then put the laser back onto the nut and slowly moved it a little bit left and right.



I decided that I couldn't see anything wrong so put the back cover back on and screwed it back in place.

I then put a piece of card underneath and pressed the Play/Pause button for a few seconds and here is what printed.

This may or may not work for you, for me luckily it did work. The laser may not have been sitting correctly so taking the back cover off and putting it back on may have made it sit correctly.




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  1. UnknownDecember 8, 2020 at 6:32 PM

    I did this on mine after having the skewed image issue. The only other thing I did was to unplug the cable so I could get right in there. I moved the worm gear by hand to centralize the laser and lifted it off the nut. As you noted I couldn't see anything obviously wrong so I put it all back together and fired it up. I opened the app and typed in these words to engrave into a piece of ply "A Waste of Money" ... It proceeded to print the words perfectly. I then took a picture of myself and hit start.. Once again it engraved the photo of me into the plywood perfectly.. I still scratch my head as to why its decided to work now...

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