What is your max spindle speed? I'm guessing that your machine will be well suited for high speed machining of aluminum. Although I'm not very well versed in high speed machining, I've heard of people machining aluminum at spindle speeds of 20,000-60,000 RPM with ungodly feed speeds.
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