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

[Zeeflyboy]

Did a little machining today... found some nice little extrusion connectors at motedis which will work nicely at pulling the two side extrusions together:




There is a rather pricey drill bit and jig that you can buy to put the hole in the extrusion at the right spot, but I figured it was just as easy and much cheaper to use the CNC instead. I just 3D printed some little work alignment jigs so that I didn't have to re-zero between each setup:

setting up:




Milling using a fairly long 8mm bit to a depth of 36mm






Fits nicely:






Oh and Thorlabs brackets arrived last week - I've just gone for the front ones at the moment given that they are certainly not cheap. Will wait to see whether I think the rear ones are a good idea or not.