Humble Beginnings - For Alu

[Husky]

Will there be more frame work to that base frame.?

Yeah, Originally I planned to lay it atop some massive ass bits of wood. But it seems that this is a bad idea... So I need to draw up some legs and cross braces etc for it now.

You could get away from this very easily with a slight design change to how gantry mounts to bearings.? Instead of using the short piece of Box section has riser then make that piece full length of the machine and mount directly onto the frame. Put the linear rails on this then mount the gantry to the bearings directly using a plate to replace the short box section.
The plate could be 20mm Ali or 10mm steel either would work ok. Personally I'd use Ali plate has welding thick to thin steel creates heat distortion and make the Triangle brackets out of Box section along with larger Triangle plates for strength. (see pic)

I had to read it a few times to get what you meant but figured it out in the end haha.



Thanks for the info, I'll get drawing! :)