El Beast - Initial design phase, comments and critique welcomed!

[Zeeflyboy]

Also made a start on the X-axis, you may recall these belt guides... decided to get them done and out the way so I can do a proof of concept test before making a mess of expensive extrusions.




12mm plate secured down





Top side finished:




Second operation:



Third:




Racked up and getting a healthy dose of science




I cut some steel rod to length for the roller shafts and then needed to make the rollers themselves on the lathe... for this I've used some PTFE rod as it should remain maintenance free for a long time.




All finished and fitted, rods retained with a little loctite.