High speed router for aluminium tooling 3d profiling.

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The Thermwood controller is made by Thermwood themselves, they call it the supercontroller 91000 or 910000. It is similer to a mach 3 setup with a motioncontroller like a kflop board. The controller is very nice to use and I would be sad to see it go, but one day it is going to go pop and I will convert it to mach 3/kflop/linux cnc rather than spend thousands on the parts needed to repair, in fact most parts are prob not available.

My machine is from 1997 I think, had it been a couple of years younger I would have been able to load files onto the hard drive via a local network and that would have solved that issue, but to be honest this machine is made to profile plywood shapes and most files for simple 2d stuff come well under 1.4mb. 3d wise I have made a series of 1.2m boat hulls on this machine from foam insulating board the widest boat was just under 300mm so 150mm per halve. It did a fine job of that so I think there would be a argument for converting it to mach 3 and squeesing a bit more versatililty out of her.