Gary Hair
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hundreds * or * thousands, not hundreds * of * thousands.

I mark anywhere from 5,000 to 7,000 anodized aluminum parts a month, sometimes double that in November/December, so "hundreds to thousands" of...

I'm out of touch with who sells decent fiber lasers now so I'll let others speak to that. As for firearm engraving 30 watts is plenty. 50 would...

I would do whatever it took to do both. I financed the GCC because I didn't have that much cash sitting around and I financed my Trotec because it...

Both. Never, ever, has anyone said "my laser is too big and too powerful"!

"What am I missing?" You are just missing the exact setting for your machine and that particular metal. No two machines are exactly alike and no...

Yes, you need eye protection. Our eyes don't have a blink reflex to the wavelength of light that a fiber uses so you are 100% susceptible to...

Job Control is basically a print driver so you have to print from whatever program you are using, that's not possible in your scenario.

There isn't a set length for a focus tool for any machine, you need to determine that yourself. Even two of the exact same machines with the exact...

I did a lot of work for a company that had a galvo co2 that they used for serial number and logo marking on large anodized aluminum parts. It was...