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

[Zeeflyboy]

Managed to sneak in a little play time after work today... made the bottom plate for the Z-axis




Top side done:




Rear side - just used 3 dowel pins to locate it this time




Finished part:






Next up will be the back plate, hopefully have time to do that tomorrow after work.

I also re-designed the top bearing support plate as per the advice of routercnc to allow one of the bearings to float into place. For now I've just 3D printed the bearing float plate... Thought it was interesting as I'm using my favourite material for actual functional parts - a PETG Carbon fibre infused filament which is brilliant to work with. Very stiff and strong (as the actress said to the bishop!) and very dimensionally stable too. Finishes nicely with a little light sanding too.