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Merry Xmas all, hope you all had a good one!


Same sort of time frame for my gift, only difference being it gets 12' in length and can take a chunk if I accidental wind him up!! :black_eyed:...

Just thought that someone might find this of interest.
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC S3D ENCLOSURE STEEL | eBay

I picked one of them up this morning for £50. Boxed in new condition with internal back plate...

[Please note this post is not quite finished - I will be editing it in the next few days to include costings among other things]

Just over two years ago, when I made the steel frame for my router...

That one never got anywhere and neither will this one.

Don't want to be a wet squib over this but seen it over and over again where a group build is called for.
7 years ago, may be longer a Yahoo...

I love it when practical experience makes a mockery of the theorists :glee:

I fooking told you so three years ago - dipshit.

Aluminium warehouse is good, however I recently needed to order quite a large amount of aluminium (about 300kg) so shopped around and found this place was quite a lot cheaper:
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I've ordered some nice hard wood to make my wooden coffee table with the in lay of a carved dragon (jazz is drawing up for me)

now I wanted to make some extra special joints for the legs cut out...

Put the rails on the front plate and the bearings on the back plate. This way the rails help stiffen the front plate.
The carriages then go low on the backplate and it makes for a very stiff z axis...

The best thing to do would be to submit it as a new thread in the Tool & Tooling Technology forum, when you make your post you will be able to add file attachments to the post/thread, we have .dxf...