Machining aluminium on a Biesse

[jeremy budgen]

Has any one machined aluminium on a biesse rover before, i own a rover 2.3 2006 version and would like to know if i was to try to machine aluminium on a wood working router would it damage the machine.

Cheers

Jeremy

[cabnet636]

i machine aluminum on my cnc quite often, i have no doubt the biesse will do it, learn a bit about aluminum, its hardness (6061 and above machines best) the feeds and speeds keeping chips cool or lubed

here is a good video of onsrud to start

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5I3H2Hp6M"]YouTube- onsrud.mp4[/nomedia]

[jeremy budgen]

Thanks James for the info.

Any with a rover machine doing this type of work.

Cheers

Jeremy