Un-Crating the Phantom Photon Laser

Recently Ive partnered with Phantom CNC to give their newest line of Laser Machines a try in my shop. As an experienced Laser user, my plan here and on my socials is to help walk you guys through the process post purchase.

Today we are going to talk through taking delivery and uncrating your machine. Future topics will be setting up, Software/programing, all the way through how to run a successful laser business.

My goal in this series will be to help you decide if purchasing a laser for your shop is something that will help grow and support your business or offer a chance to start a whole new business all together.

Delivery:

From placing my order to delivery Phantom had my laser out to me inside of 10 days. Here are a few things youll need to consider:

1.) Who is going to be around to take delivery

2.) When you schedule the delivery, make sure you indicate that you will need a lift gate ( unless you have a forklift) as I wasnt asked, and they had to take the machine back, put it on a truck with a liftgate and bring this back. Fed Ex Freight acomodated me the same day, but this may not be the case for you.

3.) having a clear space for the laser to be dropped of, where you have room to take the crate apart and get access to your machine.

Un-Crating: Click this to see me Unboxing my laser

My machine is the Photon 35/23, the crate was large and in charge and you should be prepared to manage this. Here are a few helpful hints on this process.

1.) Get yourself a nice 5/16 Impact ready bit, this will speed up your unboxing as the crate is assembled using some pretty sizeable screws with a 5/16 drive head.

2.) The machine is going to be sitting up on top of a pallet, this means all 685lbs of it have to come down off that pallet about 6 inches. I used two truck ramps and some 3/4 plywood to roll it down.

3.) Find yourself a few friends that you've helped move them into their most recent home, and get them to repay that favor by helping you roll this beast off that pallet.

4.) All jokes aside, take this serioius as the machine is expensive and you dont need anymore getting hurt.

Stay tuned for my next blog as I get each of the accesories set up, plugged in and fire up my machine!