Hello from sunny NW England

[Clive S]

Ho RobC Welcome to the forum what part of Manchester are you from I think there are several people from around the northwest. Good choice on the spindle looking forward to see it making chips

[RobC]

I'm glad I did purchase the water cooled version as it is so quiet, barely any vibrations at all when at maximum rpm. I'm from right on the borders of Wigan and Salford.

[Boyan Silyavski]

You could always put additional braces at the back of the gantry and the sides, if not happy. That will make it considerably stiffer with next to none investment and time spend.

[Desertboy]

Hi, welcome to the forums spent a lot of time in Liverpool when I was younger never remember any sun lol. Only that the Sun was actually banned everywhere lol.

Liverpuddlians smarter then they look or sound ;)

I was going to use supported rail and mount it just like you so nice to see it would have worked ;)

[RobC]

Well it's pretty rigid it's just the shear weight and how much harder steel is to manually work with but today I had the first movement out of it via a PC input. Quite noisy but that's because I need to tune the motors. Now needing to install a 30amp circuit to my workshop as it's overloading the current circuit so that's another set back in the build.