Router design thoughts

[JAZZCNC]

mmm...never thought about going fixed gantry. Biggest issue I can see with that is if I do end up running coolant. I know misting is an option, but flooding is easier to contain.

Adjustable height gantry could be possible, but I'd probably just leave it at whatever height it would need to get a 4th axis, so wouldn't really be any benefit.

Nah the fixed bed doesn't make it any harder to have coolant, It's just the same has a milling machine but with the bed moving in only one Axis and the column becoming the 2 fixed gantry sides. Just sit the whole thing in a collection tray or metal enclosure.?

I prefer blown mist cooling for aluminium anyway. Flood is ok if it's proper massive flood but you can't see what's going off where has with mist you see every thing and the cutter is mostly chip free so not re-cutting.
Not saying it's better than Flood just it's my pref unless real big flood so all chips are washed away and this can get very messy so enclosure very much needed.!!

[Jonathan]

Just sit the whole thing in a collection tray or metal enclosure.?

Maybe m_c doesn't have the space required for the bigger enclosure required to accommodate a moving bed machine? I think the inconvenience of having a large enclosure is negligible compared to the advantages of having a fixed gantry.

[JAZZCNC]

Maybe m_c doesn't have the space required for the bigger enclosure required to accommodate a moving bed machine? I think the inconvenience of having a large enclosure is negligible compared to the advantages of having a fixed gantry.

Possibly but that still doesn't make having flood cooling harder on a fixed gantry and that was the point.! . . . Plus the tray wouldn't need any more space than the machine requires anyway.!