There are a lot of treads about choosing a new desktop laser but on non of them I can find a clear answer to my questions.
What I want to do is to cut in sheetmetal like stainless steel or brass with a thickness of +/-0.1~0.5mm. I also want to make cuts in kapton material(like the orange tape on flexible PCB's). I guess kapton is not a problem but the metal could be? Cutting in multiple runs is not a problem for me..
I also would like to engrave on anodized aluminium, from what I heard and read that's not a big issue? And the last thing that I would like to do with the machine is to burn 35µm of copper away from an epoxy PCB to make my own PCB's with the laser, is this possible? I saw some LPKF machines doing that, but they are way too expensive.
I saw that the versalaser could do almost everything but it would costs like 14.000 dollars excl. shipping and VAT to my place. My budget is +/-8000 dollars. I was looking at some chinese ones but they have very few specs on their website and from reading al the posts here I'm not sure if I should believe it.
Anyone here that van make things clear for me? Thanks!