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cesium-sandwich t1_iy9ssxy wrote

Reply to comment by SatanLifeProTips in China is now using advanced 3D-printing tech in its warplanes by Gari_305

Yeah I thought about getting one of those cheap chinese laser cutters, but I was worried about getting my eyeballs burnt out since they have a questionable safety interlocks.. I read a few horror stories.. but I'll definitely hit you up if I'm in that market, u/SatanLifeProTips.

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SatanLifeProTips t1_iy9uvwi wrote

There you go shopping on aliexpress again.

I’m talking professional grade fully enclosed machine tools. Same as you would see in any professional fabrication shop.

You get what you pay for. When you see a shitty laser cutter with no enclosure, that is what you are getting.

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cesium-sandwich t1_iya53u2 wrote

Hehe all good bro. I didn't have "Talking about laser cutters with a China simp on the futurology sub" on my bingo card today, but here we are.

fwiw the one I looked at a couple years ago was an enclosed c02 laser, I think a k40.. but I don't even have a workshop, lol.
It wasn't on aliexpress.. it was some weird chinese factory..
I'll see if I can dig it up, and post back.

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SatanLifeProTips t1_iyb42qd wrote

Co2 is dying. It’s all about fibre lasers now. The cost of operation per hour is drastically better. You’ll see the CO2 laser market start to VHS over the next couple of years as the smaller and smaller fibre lasers get stupid cheap.

And I may have to make a fibre module add on for my plasma table. Because wow. $3k for that 1.5kW fibre laser is hard to argue with.

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