The following is a excerpt from a very interesting blog post called “Router or Machining Center?” written by Nick Bloom on www.techspex.com:
“Most of the operations performed by routers are the same as those performed by milling machines. They both cut stock away from its original form. They both can slot, mill, drill, ream. Both machines can be equipped with as many or as few programmable axes as the other. I’m not sure how the two terms came into being or how the two machine types differ from a technical perspective. But the word on the street is that routers were originally made for…”
Click here to read the entire post.
Masse Sales Ltd. offers both “routers” for lighter applications like wood and panel cutting, and “machining centers” for heavy cuts in solid wood, hard plastics, composites, carbon fibre, aluminium and other metals like cast iron. If you would like more information on either of these types of machine, please contact us.
