Cast aluminium gantry router

[GEOFFREY]

Once you have successfully cast your parts, do you intend to offer cast parts for sale on the forum? If you do I am sure that you will soon get some customers for gantry ends, motor mounts etc. Good luck. G.

[gavztheouch]

Once you have successfully cast your parts, do you intend to offer cast parts for sale on the forum? If you do I am sure that you will soon get some customers for gantry ends, motor mounts etc. Good luck. G.

I agree, I think specialised cast parts would make for a good kickstarter. I would buy a nice cast gantry end that incorporated machined mounting points for linear bearing blocks and ballscrew mounts

[jrcast]

Good idea about the kickstarter, maybe I should keep all my ideas secret in case anyone nicks them :)
Sod it, here's some pics.
Here's the start for the gantry pattern. It's 19mm thick and longer than I need as I'm thinking about doing a kit and the gantry can be cut to size. All needs to be sanded smooth and all the inside corners need to have wax fillets put in.