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K40 before making a 30k investment.
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019
by Patrick Owens
Just wanted to make sure this wasn’t a toy and that it had real world applications. Now looking for 250w + to cut thin aluminum sheets. Weary of multiple tube set up and fiber lasers hav too small of a work space. My go to CNC router, the hunt continues.
Re: K40 before making a 30k investment.
Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019
by Tim Mellor
The K40 as a gateway drug is fine if you don't mind tinkering with it and adding some more to it. I deliberately went up the tree a little on a higher spec K40 of sorts. It came with a few niceties of air assist and adjustable bed and honeycomb table.
Even then I have done a bunch of tweaks to it - Some here and some shots of it
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/4 ... -vollerun/
In case you haven't found it yet get a copy of Scorchworks K40 Whisperer and download Inkscape and dump Laserdraw ASAP.
https://www.scorchworks.com/K40whispere ... perer.html
If you want to play with Aluminium take a look at Plasma and Water Jet Cutting too as an option over Laser.
Re: K40 before making a 30k investment.
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019
by Gene Uselman
If you want to play with Aluminium take a look at Plasma and Water Jet Cutting too as an option over Laser.
Tim- I at first thought this was a reference to the K40 Whisperer software, but I see nothing on the site?