X3 mill with rails, ATC, new motor

[Jonathan]

Thanks Mike.

Today, I milled two slots!
4mm wide by 5mm deep slots in the steel strips shown in the previous post. The slots will have simple covers placed into them.


Next I've devised a bit of a mad scheme to drill the array of M6 holes in the bed:


Then checked that it was sufficiently parallel - couple of whacks with the nearest hammer and it's now within 0.05mm over 400mm.


Now to continue the drawing...