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

[Desertboy]

Cheers, though its a toy compared to some of the beasts on here (looking at you chaz!). Don't have any drawings, what are you after specifically?

Rob - ta!

I noticed today that I've had a bit of a design snafu. My motor mount model was mislabelled - the model is a mb10-c and what I have are mb12-c.

Thankfully I caught it before I made the x or z parts, but it means my ball screws are 3mm too low at the motor end as the mb12-c is a little taller.

So options are:

- Buy 2x MB10-C (bad... about £60 each and it isn't great for consistency)

- Re-machine a new front face plate with the ball screw bearings moved down by 3mm (I'll have to order more aluminium... not great but cheaper than two new motor mounts). Will also require a small design tweak to the ballnut mounts.

- skim the motor mount plates down by 3mm. Downside is they were only 10mm to start with so would be getting a bit skinny.

I'm leaning towards option 2. Really annoying - good lesson to verify all models are correctly labelled before using them! Could be worse, at least I caught it before it caused problems on all the axis.

Feel for you, I almost made a similar mistake I just assumed all my Hiwin's were HGH carriages but some were HGL which are 4mm shorter. I almost missed it it's only because I put all my Hiwin's together that I noticed there was a height difference and so actually checked with a steel ruler and discovered the recovered Hiwin's were HGL.

Really shows that measuring everything in the real world to make sure you cad models are correct and the right ones is just a good idea.

Can you get tooling plate locally? Where I am there are a few suppliers doing tooling plate they are more expensive than aluminium warehouse but cheaper on small orders because there's no delivery charge.