Not the avarage aluminium router

[Sven]

The legs have been bonded/bolted.


The frame horizontals are milled to their size on the router that is the template for mine


Frame is ready.
The legs are 100x100x5 mm, the horizontals are 20x150


With the bed on top of the frame, it is time to bond all gantry beams together.
In hindsight it would have been better to bond the 6 box sections first and then bond the tooling plate to the box sections in the second session.

This way might not require milling the gantry flat for the rails, if the bed can be set up very flat.


First rail mounted


Gantry being milled. We ended up at about 0.02 mm flatness over 1450 mm


As we needed to mill more of the gantry beam than anticipated I needed a new surface to mount the bearings for the Y-axis ball screw to...


Squeezed in epoxy/quartz flour mix


Very happy with the result...


... Flat to 0.01 mm