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Unboxing Your Monport: What the Manual Misses

2026-02-11
By: BuildMakeShare
In: Laser Cutters & Engravers

Your laser just showed up and the manual assumes you already know what you’re doing. Why This Matters I’ve unboxed four Monport lasers at this point. Two CO2 machines and two fiber units. Every single one arrived with at least three things the manual skipped or buried in bad translation. The manual tells you to “install the machine” and “check all connections.” That’s not helpful when you’re staring at 200 pounds of equipment in your driveway and you’ve never owned a laser before. This is what I wish someone told me before I fired up my first Monport. These are the things that will saveKEEP READING →

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