It's coming back together nicely. There's a shelf in the base for the controller and cooling to sit on, a nice new tray for the drag chain and I'll have all the motors, proximity sensors and the spindle back in place over the weekend. With a bit of luck it will all have survived the journey from WA to Tasmania and move as expected by Monday.

Once it's all assembled I'l be aligning the gantry from scratch using the same 'tramming with taught wires' method I described briefly in this thread last year...
http://www.mycncuk.com/threads/13627...ut-Wires/page2

This method uses the fixed rails themselves rather than the baseplate of the machine as the reference plane for adjusting the gantry and spindle in various axes and also uses the Z-axis drive as a micrometer for measurements, saving the expense of a dial guage etc. I'm not sure I was very clear about the method last time round, is anyone interested in seeing more details when I go through the process again? As with the rest of this machine the gantry was built with hand tools with limited accuracy so alignment and adjustment with lots of measurements and shims is required.