Cutting aluminum

[BrianM]

A stock X-Carve (1000mm) will cut Aluminum

I’ve seen a few posts over the past few days saying “I want to cut aluminum too… what modifications do i need?!?”. You don’t need a Z-Axis upgrade… You don’t need an iron bar for your x-axis… You don’t need to wave a dead chicken over the spindle before you start… Just do it!! With a little common sense a stock X-Carve can do what you want. Get a good bit. This is what i use… https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007BTPPVM Stay within reasonable speeds: feed rate: 30 in/min & 0.005 in…