Joe's 1000x600x200 steel and aluminium router started

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Got the rails mounted on the milled gantry, worked really well. I've tightened them down but not yet aligned straight, for that I will mill up a couple of precision setting tools.

I then finished the Y bearing plates and bolted everything together. Everything slides very smoothly with bolts tight, very exciting! The Y bearings have the same smooth action across the entire length with no hint of any variation so I presume the gantry milling was sufficiently parallel.



One thing I need to do before too long is hit the corners of these plates with a sander, they are razor sharp and I keep bleeding all over the lovely shiny parts.