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

[Zeeflyboy]

Another day, another part.

Today I bashed out the side mounting plates. I'll need to make some more shoulder screws as I have used a similar alignment strategy to the gantry slider plate to ensure alignment.






I also had my first whoopsy moment on this project - the lead out from the contour of the first part went crashing into the second part and I missed it on the simulation. Oh well, the small gouge will be a reminder that I'm a moron.




Good indication as to how much chunkier the new machine is - even the mounting plates make the X6's arms look skinny: