MDF and alu sandwich router

[Tom]

Lots of hacksawing and hole drilling this weekend.

Pics:
1) Finished X carriages
2) X carriages mounted to Y gantry
3) Detail of rear of gantry with emergency dowels - without these the 12mm MDF was splitting, and the gantry had almost no strength.
4) The gantry wedged under the table to see what it looks like. Z plate is propped up to get an idea too.

The next step is to get the X rails drilled and mounted to the underside of the table. Can't wait to get the gantry rolling... I've tested the carriages on the rails already and found them smooth rolling, but sensitive to quite small pieces of debris on the rails. Hopefully having them mostly tucked out of harms way will keep them fairly clean - if not I'll add some oiled felt wipers later.

I'm quite enjoying this! Hopefully there'll be a 2nd working router in Derby soon,,,,,