Joe's 1000x600x200 steel and aluminium router started

[devmonkey]

Y rails are now fixed in their final position using the setting tools described above, worked very well and was super quick to do. Both gantry end assemblies are aligned and bolted to check final fit, everything looks good. Note rubber mallet, this is a precision build honest ;-)



Other than ballscrews everything from the X plates upwards is now complete, will move back to the steel frame next, need to decide whether to pour epoxy or attempt to rig up a mobile surface grinding contraption to bring the frame into plane.

Jazz when you fettle beams holding the X rails into plane do you just scrape by hand checking with a precision level and blueing off a surface plate large enough to span the two X beams? Or do you just level each beam locally then shim one side to bring into plane? My last larger machine had X beams that could be adjusted independently up and down with the rail attached, this one has beams welded to the frame.

Cheers, Joe