This is my second router, to replace a 950x550x240 self made.
There were some design and construction issues in the first one I wanted to get rid of, but that would take a serious amount of work and quite a lot of time.

As I can not be without a router for long since I use it to make parts for my business, I thought I'd better make a new one, which then would be bigger.

The lay out from this new one was handed to me by a gentleman who builds machines for a living and for his business he built his own 2500x600x350 router that he uses for high alloy steel if needed.

He did not approve of my plans to build a epoxy concrete gantry and then offered me his help in designing and if need building mine.

In the end I copied his layout but used tooling plate instead of steel.
I bought some tooling plate and box section aluminium from a scrap merchant and bought new tooling plate if I could not find a bargain.
All copper and ball bearing was bought through ebay and the PC is scratch build for linuxcnc.

I'll start with the pics in the next post.