How to Clean your Glowforge Lenses

Steps to cleaning your lenses

1. Turn on your machine.
2. Spray off areas near lenses, camera and mirrors with canned air.
3. Gently brush off lenses to prevent scratch when wiping the lenses
4. Wipe off camera with wipe.
5. Remove head of the glowforge.
6. Spray off fan with canned air (optional)
7. Wipe down the two lenses on either side of the hole at the bottom.
8. With your blue lens tool, remove your lens putting the magnetic side in pull out your lens.
9. Brush and wipe your lens on both sides, and (paying attention to the arrow on your lens or putting the concave side up) reinsert the lens.
10. Remove the top part of the head and remove the blue mirror at the top, brush, and clean and then reinsert.
11. Wipe down the lenses on the left of the head and the one on the arm on the left side of your machine.
12. Reattach the head if necessary and fire up your machine!

Do not use a course brush and check and make sure that your brush can be used for this purpose. If you are unsure, skip the brushing altogether!


Materials Needed.
1. Blue Lens tool provided from Glowforge
2. Canned air and brush (optional)
3. Zeiss Lens Wipes (available on Amazon or in most larger stores)

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