Quote Originally Posted by Juranovich View Post
I hear ya! But isn’t it lovely to overthink things especially when you don’t yet know anything? Even though I constantly pull myself out of that rabbit hole, I keep falling in...



Also- I AM THE LAW!!!
My problem is when I overthink, it develops feature-creep in any of my designs and a simple rowboat turns into the Titanic (with associated problems included). 😳

If there is one piece of advice I could give it is if you are aiming to make mainly wood and soft material things GO BIG... as in get as big a footprint for your XY as possible. If you are aiming to make parts out of aluminium and steel... then GO SMALL as smaller equals more rigidity. As most hobby CNCers can’t afford a cast iron bed or have the skills of people like This Old Tony then a small mini-mill is actually better.

What threw me about bed size was how much you lose to the gantry and the dust boot. As I put mine into an enclosure I also wish me from the future had turned up and convinced myself to make the enclosure taller to give the dust extractor hose and router power room to move easier (I found keeping the mains lead away from the other wiring stopped any spurious signals getting onto the limit switch wiring... before I had the thing triggering random alerts all the time).

I also put onto isolation into the limit switch lines. I can’t remember the last time I had a spurious signal get through and trip the alarm.