Newbie CNC Build

[JunkieHobbo]

Junkie:

You need to add some triangle plates to the corner uprights where they meet the cross brace, like the pic below. (Take no notice of rest of frame it's not complete here, still needs corner braces amongst other things)
I can have mine going upwards because there's the adjustable bed which they don't come above but if your not having an adjustable bed then just flip them and take down towards bottom corners. They really stiffen the frame up and stop any sideways movement, they also make getting the sides square to the base very easy when initially setting up.
Don't be put off with bolting, the frame in the picture is unbelievably strong but yet very easy to setup due to all it's adjustment.

OK, I made the adjustments as suggested.



I also added the X-Axis Support with Profile rails and Bearings. It is coming together nicely now, if all is OK and I hav'nt missed anything glaringly obvious I will start to work on the X-Axis BallScrew Mounts.

Regarding the Ballscrews for the X-Axis, Are there any things I should watch out for? Is there a good way and a bad way to mount BallScrews? What is the optimum way of doing this using belts? Should this Plate supporting the Stepper and Ballscrew be Bolted or Welded?

I know, to many questions again...

[JAZZCNC]

Coming along nice thou them sides look a little high if your not having an adjustable height bed. The Z axis will be quite long = flex = tool Chatter = Shite finish.!!

Regards the ballscrew mounts then again you need to try to build in has much adjustabilty for alignment as possible, you can weld support plates for the main ballscrew mount plates but would'nt weld the mounting plates them selfs better to bolt and allow adjustabilty.
It also depends on the type of BS mounts your going to use to which way or how you go about it.

Some more renders to give some idea how I'm doing it, hopefully be able to show machined parts soon they will be slightly different but close.