Material Library for Fiber and CO2 Laser

Located below you will find our machines and their associated library. Click the link to download for your machine.

1. Thunder CO2 glass tube parameter library
   
2. Thunder CO2 RF tube parameter library
   
3. Thunder Fiber laser tube parameter library
   

Laser safe material list 

CO2 Material Compatibility

Material	Cut	Engraving
Acrylic	√	√
Anodized Aluminum	√
Ceramic	√
Cloth	√	√
Coated Metals	√
Corian	√	√
Cork	√	√
Delrin	√	√
Fabric	√	√
Fiberglass	√	√
Glass	√
Leather	√	√
Marble	√
Matte Board	√	√
Melamine	√	√
Mother of Pearl	√	√
Mylar	√	√
Painted Metals	√
Paper	√	√
Plastic	√	√
Pressboard	√	√
Rubber	√	√
Tile	√
Wood	√	√
Wood Veneer	√	√

*CO2 lasers will mark bare metals when coated with a metal marking solution.

CO2 Material Compatibility

17-4 PH stainless steel	303 stainless steel	4043 steel
ABS(white/black)	Aluminum,6061	Aluminum, yellow chromate
Bayer 2807 Markrolon polycarbonate	Bayers bayblend FR110	Black/white polycarbonate
Brass	Brushed aluminum	Carbon nanotube
Ceramics, metal-plated	Clear coat anodized aluminum	Cobalt chrome steel
Colored delrin (black/brown)	Compacted powder iron with phosphate coating	Copper
Delrin, colored (black/brown)	Glass filled PEEK	Glass filled Teflon
Hard coat anodized aluminum	Inconel metals (various)	Machine tool steel
Magnesium	Metal-plated ceramics	Molybdenum
Nickel plated 1215 mild steel	Nickel plated brass	Nickel plated gold
Nickel plated Kovar	Nickel plated steel	Nylon
Silicon steel	Silicone wafers	Stainless steel 303
Yellow chromate aluminum	Zinc plated mild steel

Finding information on what is safe and unsafe for cutting and engraving can be a difficult. At Thunder Laser we highly recommend every user do their research on materials and ONLY use substrates that are safe and  you are comfortable with.

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