K40 Laser Alignment BackSide

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K40 LED work piece alignment tool. After printing a different unit where it is on the table side of the K40 laser and it getting in the way of the drag chain. I decided to make it for the opposite side of the back wall. Also used a magnet from a old hard drive. Have alot of harddrives from a server farm to get parts from. But you could mod the unit to use any other magnets you can around. I printed in ABS as this is my filament of choose. For fun did it at 0.1mm layer at 20% fill. I did find I had to drill out the LED holes to allow them to be pushed through. Thinking my printer needs to be calibrated again. The unit I built has two circuits with 4 LEDs per circuit powered with 12 VDC. The 4 LEDs are in series with approx 34ohm 1/2watt resistor for the last voltage drop required to be used with the 12vdc I applied. Hot glued the magnet in to keep it from Shifting. Works great for me. Started with this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3408224