Joe's 1000x600x200 steel and aluminium router started

[devmonkey]

Progress update:

Stand is bolted to the floor and machine is clamped to the stand. I cut some little bits of angle and use M8 bolts for the clamps. So first the stand was levelled as best a possible with some composite slate tile shims and bolted to the floor. Then the machine was levelled on top of the stand (it has an M12 bolt threaded into the bottom of each corner) and checked that each bolt was bearing weight (attempting to avoid twisting the machine), then finally it was lightly clamped at 4 points to the stand.



I cut all the cabling to length and took it indoors to solder all sensors and motors, this took a few hours and rather a lot of heatshrink.

Next I fitted all the motors and sensors to the machine and started work on the enclosure.

A few trips to screwfix to further increase my holesaw collection, then an unpleasant afternoon drilling fan, exhaust, switch, indicators and gland ports in the steel enclosure. Now mounted to the wall and cabling fed through. Will do final wiring tomorrow and maybe the first machine moves!



That ugly slot next to the glands is for the DB37 control cable to go to the DDCS control box.

Finally both drag chains were fixed.