Quote Originally Posted by JAZZCNC View Post
Again not so sure from all the deads ones I've seen.
I'd have to defer to your experience on that one - I have only limited experience with them but the one I know of in use have been ok so far. Sample size of 1...

End of the day you get what you pay for and buying cheap comes with risk of unreliabilty. If just hobby use then not so much a big issue but if lively hood or main income revolves around cutting then best avoided.
Can't disagree with that, but then again you could go through a lot of chinese lasers before you reach the price of an epilog or similar.

I don't get the impression that this is a livelihood, rather a side line - but I may be wrong! I do agree that if it's a question of livelihood then the equation changes dramatically as time spent sorting out issues is time spent not earning.