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It's been a while since my last post, but things have moved on considerably. Here is the next installment of my build I hope you enjoy.

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Fashioning a bracket to hold the stepper motor at 90...

Thanks Neale, that's reassuring. My main reason for going belt drive was to increase speed with the 1605 ballscrews. I've ordered HTD5 pulleys with 9mm width and belts. I figure I'll just cut slots...

Ha, that's more or less exactly what I did. The quotes to have them made were coming in at silly money. I think one quote for the two plates was over £600. This forced my hand. I figured that two...

Started construction of the Z axis front and rear plates. Armed with a hammer a center punch, a set of hss drill bits and a few counterbore bits off ebay and my trusty Clarke Bench drill this is the...

Hi Desertboy,

Thanks for the comments. I did think about placing the supported rails on the side of the extrusion. The one reason that I didn't was because of the tolerances of the cutting of the...

Here are some rendered drawings of my design. Some bits are missing like the motor and pulleys on the second X axis ball screw but they are identical to the other side only mirrored so you should get...

After a fair few years of 'thinking' about it, and a few months learning a CAD package to make sure it'll stand a chance of working I've finally started work on my Mk 1 CNC router. I should have...