Quote Originally Posted by pistonhead76 View Post
Ive read through the forums here and people seem a lot more helpful here. Im from the U.S. and I'm always impressed by the U.K people's hospitality. Cheers.
Hi and welcome to the forum!

We can accommodate you no problem at all, here is a little info for you to get you started:

The official intension is that, if you have specific questions regarding a particular aspect of building a new machine, so for example you would like advice on selecting the best motor or servos to use, you would ask those questions in the relevant section, so in this example you would navigate to the Electronics section of the forum and start a new thread in the Stepper & Servo Motors sub-forum.

This helps others who may have similar questions to yourself, find the most relevant information much faster.

Then, once you’ve decided you have enough information to start designing a machine for your application, you would start a new thread offering your design for review (if applicable), in the relevant Machine Building sub-forum. Once you’re happy that all of the creases have been ironed with your design, it would be a good time to start a new thread in the forum that best fits your machine type, so for example the Gantry/Router Build Logs sub-forum would be the place to go.

The above being said, there are no requirements and your free and encouraged to do what you feel is the best for you. If a thread goes particularly off topic or content would serve best in another section of the forum, we can always step in and make the relevant changes to keep things more uniform.

As a side note: I would strongly reconsider using any type of un-supported round rail for your machine. It will work dont get me wrong, but you would be far far better off not using it.

Thanks,
Lee