AVOR – a steel-framed medium-size router

[Clive S]

Bloody hell Neale you are putting me to shame good write up.

[Doddy]

Well... that's me nicking a few ideas, designs and pointers.

In particular - very interesting about the all-steel construction, well argued case.

[Neale]

Well... that's me nicking a few ideas, designs and pointers.

Please do - that's exactly what I did!

It's taken me nearly as long to write this as I did building the machine, but I know that I have left out a lot of detail. For example, I'm very happy with the way I was able to run the Y ballscrew through the gantry uprights because wherever else I put it seemed to have disadvantages. I've made a few mistakes as well - believe or not, I completely forgot to allow for the bed supports and bed thickness when I was calculating Z clearance under the gantry. Fortunately, it's fine for the kind of work I normally do.

I'm happy to provide more information on any points I have not mentioned - or any of the ones I have but where I haven't gone into detail.

[Neale]

Bloody hell Neale you are putting me to shame good write up.

Not really, Clive - I just wanted to demonstrate that I do really build stuff and not just talk about it!

[Boyan Silyavski]

I like the gantry very much

[routercnc]

It's taken me a while to post because it took so long to get around to reading it all !
Nice build and great write up. Will be very useful for someone starting out to get up to speed with it all.

Epoxy levelling comments made me think a bit and yes levelling without the bridge is possible if there is adjustment on the gantry to ensure the x bearings run smooth and the y axis is epoxy levelled afterward. Got me thinking which to choose for my mk4 machine. Still like the bridge but agree it can work without

Nice control box also and full of nice kit

[Zeeflyboy]

Looks like a really nice design... Will be following with interest!

[magicniner]

You could have called it RWAIN - Router Without an Interesting Name ;-)

[Neale]

Thanks, Nick - I'll save that one for the Mk3!

[Hulksmash]

Great design and in-depth write up for us newbies

Many thanks for sharing your hard work with others

regards

Mike