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

[Zeeflyboy]

Thanks chaps.

Alex - the attwater SRBP msds seems pretty benign.. I would be surprised if it was any worse than MDF for you anyway! http://www.attwater.com/downloads/sr...lth-safety.pdf

I think as with all these things it's best to avoid inhaling any dust anyway.


Made the front plate today, bit more of a challenge to hold down as it doesn't have sufficient through holes... instead I had to spilt the operations up a bit.

First setup - machined the ends and the back side for rail mounting holes, HD16 mounting pattern and some temporary alignment block holes to make sure the first rail is straight to the edge of the plate.



Then re-clamped and ran the side machining:






Drilled a few 6mm dowel pin holes to butt the piece up to when flipping for top side operations:








Unfortunately I don't have any correctly sized m5 bolts for mounting the rails. Amazing - seems no matter how many screws I have on hand, I never have enough of the correct size!