[Jared]

As others have said, Onsrud bits are the way to go. We use a .125" single flute end mill designed for cutting aluminum, and we can go about 100 ipm comfortably through .125" aluminum.

We haven't had much luck with our vacuum table as a reliable hold down. Instead, we like to use a combination of double sided tape and clamps on the edges of the material.

The mister has a tendency to saturate the air in your shop with coolant, which smells strange, and probably isn't very good for long term exposure, so we've just had somebody with a spray bottle spraying some coolant (mobilcut 102) ahead of the bit.

To clear chips, we've just zip tied an air line to the side of the spindle that points right where the cutter enters the part.