Router Build number 2

[charlieuk]

A few years ago I built myself a large router for cutting stand up paddle board blanks (pic bellow) however I have now got the need to start cutting other things so would like to start the process of designing and building a second machine.

The main thing the machine will be used for will probably be for cutting moulds for various things from aluminium with a high quality surface finnish. The moulds I will be cutting will be fairly large so feed rates are important. (also pictured being cut on a china machine I have been using however in surprisingly surface finnish isn't great)

At the moment I'm thinking 1220 x 600 cutting area with at least 100mm of useable z travel

I am thinking or running the gantry down the length of the table rather than width if possible so I can use the machine with full sheets.

obviously ball screws all round

then I would like to use the cs-labs cysimo again the same as on my last machine.

I'm open to suggestions, I would quite like to use ali extrusion again for the build as I'm set up for it and have quite a few bits kicking around however I also have a good amount (from memory) 90x90x2.5 box steel that I could passably use if needed for the build if I need to go the steel route.

when I can figure what exactly Is going to be best I will have a go at starting to draw it up on cad.