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    Quote Originally Posted by JAZZCNC View Post
    The flex and rigidity of tool will never change whether you machining 2mm Ali or Top of an Engine block has the distance form gantry to spindle never changes because spindle is fixed to plate running across it. Only gantry goes up an down doing the job of a normal Z axis giving the absolute minimum amount of flex, which can only come from the tool it's self.

    ?????????

    So if the gantry is mounted on spindly rails both sides this will not be transmitted to the tool. ?

    A Z axis usually has twin rails close together on one plate.
    You are proposing two Z axis so 4 rails well spaced apart ?
    Last edited by John S; 03-05-2013 at 01:11 AM.
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