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laser from china

JimVT

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my neighbor bought a laser on ebay that came directly from china.
I pointed it on a shoelace of a guy sitting next to me and about 3 seconds it started smoking.
is this laser legal to have?

jim
 

bczoom

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Don't know but can I get a link to the e-bay place that's selling them? Would like to get one before they do get banned.
 

EastTexFrank

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That looks pretty cool!!!

I agree it'll get banned fairly soon. It won't be long before some idiot points it at a plane. Now there's a thought. The next time my neighbor's loopy son flies his drone over my place I won't threaten it with a shotgun, I'll just point the laser at it. That'll work!!!! :yum:
 

Catavenger

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How far away was the shoelace? Do you know if it could burn farther away than just a few feet?
 

JimVT

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I have pointed it at a dry leaf about 8ft and it smokes and turns black. I haven't seen any flames on anything that I pointed at.
the shoe lace was about the same distance. any farther it is just a laser light. we tried some ether in a bottle and nothing happened but I didn't want to push my luck and didn't try hard.
but if you think about it ,they have engravers and cutters with more powerful lasers.
lets hope they aren't shipping by air because it comes with lith batteries
jim
 

bczoom

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lets hope they aren't shipping by air because it comes with lith batteries
jim
I'm guessing they are. At the bottom of the ad, it says 65% of USA orders have a shipping time of 11-15 days. It can't make it from China to your door in that amount of time by boat.
 

Catavenger

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I'm guessing they are. At the bottom of the ad, it says 65% of USA orders have a shipping time of 11-15 days. It can't make it from China to your door in that amount of time by boat.


It could have been shipped by boat before, then orders are re-shipped (from a warehouse in the USA) to fill consumers orders. That way it would make it to one's door by ground in 11-15 days.
Or maybe the batteries are added in the USA.
 

JimVT

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I was under the impression that a container ship took 10 days to seattle.
 
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