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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss

Considering that the Maslow is only the CNC portion, it looks like you can use whatever router you have. I don't know much about routers, but I've seen on here that some routers can be modified to handle aluminum. Might be interesting.

It doesn't matter what router your using as a spindle no way will it cut aluminium in any meaningful way. This CNC doesn't even have a Z axis. On an xcarve a .008" doc for aluminium is normal. If this machine was even close to as capable as an Xcarve (which it is not) you would have to adjust the router 32 times to cut through 1/4" aluminium! Adjusting a router in it's mount at .008" increments isn't even possible.

Honestly I think the Maslow CNC is junk even for fun art projects, the design is shoddy and it's just too dangerous for a school enviroment. If the machine were to run into endstop (which happens all the time when you are learning) the router could fall off and cut you to bits. It's also far too slow to get a decent surface finish.