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Originally Posted by sanddrag
The budget doesn't leave you a lot of options. It really depends on the type of work you plan to do. I have access to both, and the router sees far more practical use, however, I'm not a fan of doing aluminum on a router. It's a real mess, and painfully slow compared to a mill with rigidity, horsepower, and flood coolant.
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Still a very useful machine. We did all of our gussets and a good deal of large plates on our 2012 bot on it.
For the 2013 bot we did all our gussets, and nearly all of our tubing.
It's a workhorse in our shop, certainly orders of magnitude more useful than a 3d printer.