Dry Moly Spray

used this dry moly lube as a replacement for CerMark for laser etching on stainless steel bottle openers, and it worked great! For those trying to do something similar, here's how I did it. The equipment was a Universal 40W CO2 laser. To prep the bottle openers I peeled off the stickers that they came with and cleaned off the gunk with ispropyl. I sprayed the side I wanted to mark with the dry moly and waited a half hour for it to dry, then sprayed on a second coat. To mark I used the stainless steel direct marking Universal material pre-set (100% power and ~7% speed). I was only doing text (no grayscale rasterings) but the etchings came out great. To remove the excess moly coating after the laser, I soaked the openers in a shallow bin of isopropyl for about 15 minutes and it just wiped off with a sponge (the photos below are before final cleaning, just rubbed with a scrubbing sponge under running water).