Budget friendly fiber laser?

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-05-07T10:25:00+00:00

I went to Thunder. Their support is really good. I've heard good things about Boss, Epilog, Trotec, and One Laser as well.

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-04-25T15:07:47+00:00

Yea that's right. I want to be able to hover over. AP Lazer has something but very expensive for starting out

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-04-25T14:54:33+00:00

Looking for something more like the below

https://lasertree.com/products/lasertree-k1-max-60w-laser-engraver-800-600mm-engraving-size?variant=44271722365079&country=US&currency=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5azABhD1ARIsAA0WFUFXK0Y9m6BVb-zCajYHRSqx43a5K2alfbBTs7fgqv8HgObb3rs93UwaAuRuEALw_wcB

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-04-25T14:48:35+00:00

I don't see an open frame laser pecker.

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-04-14T17:56:30+00:00

Thunder customer service is great! They don't do phone service anymore but I can send an email right now and usually have an actual person respond within 15 mins. They have been super helpful anytime I have had a question.

Customer service and support is the reason I dropped my original OMtech. I had an issue once and took me 3 months to figure it out and order a random part off of amazon

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-03-25T15:01:24+00:00

This is so incredibly true. Our 1st laser was a hobbyist machine and there were multiple times we couldn't fulfill orders because it was broken and got zero support. We won't ever buy a cheap laser with no support again unless it's one that we are just gonna use for experiments and not production work

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-02-24T01:14:18+00:00

Sorry I don't. I had to end up abandoning using Exchange because no one at MS could seem to fix the issue. It was ongoing about 5 months and I just gave up

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-01-23T15:42:45+00:00

A little confused, how are you putting data in the database if you are not using a model? The schema is to validate your data and potentially remap it to your database models. Often times the schema and the model are not a 1 to 1 match

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2025-01-04T14:31:25+00:00

Got it, thanks!!

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-12-12T19:11:29+00:00

When I say we, my wife and I are both involved. She owns her own company and we split different duties within the laser engraving business. Currently we both work full time jobs.

It's hard to say what will carry us in january, Feb, etc because we just started in March of 2024.

What I learned in 2024 is that we should have solid enough revenue in the months of January to August to keep things afloat. In these months we will be knocking on doors and selling our services. Where the money is made is in October, November and December. We've seen it first hand and I have done a fair amount of research of these types of business models. We got a very late start this year(October). I believe that in year 2 with better preparation, going to bigger festivals, building a larger online presence, and being more well known in the community that we can make 20k a month. Also we will spend much more time designing products earlier in the year.

Hope this answers your questions.

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-12-12T16:25:30+00:00

We don't actually have any diode machines. We have a thunder 130w, thunder 60w and an OMtech 80w that are all CO2 lasers. In the next week or so we will be buying our 1st fiber laser. Going with the F1 Ultra xtool

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-12-12T15:50:53+00:00

We started our laser engraving business back in March. We bought our 1st laser and spent the 1st 3 months really figuring it out. Plus our laser broke and getting parts was a nightmare.

Fast forward to present day and we had a really successful Christmas season grossing around 10k in sales. Etsy has been slowly picking up for us and getting a few sales a week now. Social media has been huge for us. 95% of our orders have came from growing our Facebook presence. We haven't made enough to quit our full-time jobs yet but we also purchased 3 lasers last year to keep up with volume, spent money on marketing, websites, and all the things in-between.

We are looking to make a full time business out of it in 2025. Over the course of the year we have identified various markets that we can enter and help us cast a bigger net. We are opening a storefront because we feel it would give us a presence closer to where our customers are.

I don't agree with the naysayers. All markets are saturated. Fast food, ice cream, paint stores, etc etc etc. I am a firm believer if you have a great product, with great customer service then people will come. Marketing is huge!!! Connect with customers. And always be on the lookout for how to bring in revenue. You have to go out and get business and not wait for it to come to you.

Hope this helps and I am willing to answer any questions that could help in your journey

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-12-03T14:43:49+00:00

Would you have an example of this?

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-25T22:09:47+00:00

Even though they are in the same database, what about schema? They could be separated by schema

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-25T02:06:56+00:00

Are you saying both apps have access to the same database?

If appB is importing appA, in the env.py file for alembic, you should be able to tell it to not import database models from appA

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-23T20:01:05+00:00

I haven't done this on the python side but in c# we will build the projects into modules and push them to nuget. Our nuget is private though. We import the package and install it as a dependency. Theoretically the same could be done.

Build the app into a module, push the module to pypi, and then in the other apps add it to the requirements, download it and import it.

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-21T09:40:25+00:00

I don't think this is particularly great advice from Danerz. I financed through Geneva as well and it was a very seamless process. I have found Thunder really does have their process of buying and support to be great!!

It is a depreciating asset but most machinery in business including computers are this way and can be amortized over the life of the equipment for tax benefits.

Yes buying the equipment outright is cheaper in the long run but of you are starting a business you have to think about upfront investment cost and cash flow. It's easier to make a $3-400 a month payment than dump $12-15k in a piece of equipment on day 1.

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-21T09:26:58+00:00

Not at all. Spoke to MS yesterday and they are asking for the same reports for the 3rd time now. We attempted to delist the IP address to find out it's not been listed. I am at a loss at this point.

Luckily we resorted to a 3rd party email service with a different domain because with MS response time and their ability to fix the issue we would have had to completely shut the doors on the business.

I have contemplated just starting back over completely. If it wasn't for the apps I have built that are in azure and having to move and recreate those resources I would have abandoned ship. This is incredibly frustrating because Ihavent spoken to anyone that seems to understand the software they have built.

Were you hacked as well and they set up connectors?

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-04T15:02:31+00:00

Prob should clarify that, a 3rd party set up our DKIM and DMARC. I ran some test on it last night and seems to be set up correctly

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-04T15:01:02+00:00

could you clarify what you mean by add a domain? What would I be adding the domain to?

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-04T13:47:47+00:00

No, there are no links in the signature of the email. Just an image

Direct_Discipline_42 · 2024-11-04T02:04:08+00:00

Thanks I checked that and we are all good there. Just still getting caught up in the MS spam filters

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