Small rigid router - Design advise needed

[mitchejc]

Some work I've done on the Z parts during the last few weeks while I was waiting for epoxy to cure and paint to dry etc.


Here's some of the laser cut steel parts. Z will be steel and front plate from alu. I wanted my Y and Z carriages on top of each other in sort of a + configuration. I did not want any welding on the actual plates so all the parts just bolts to the plates. This might not make sense but I'll post more pics to hopefully explain it a bit better.

Welding the z ball skrew mount


After some serious welding, grinding and sanding

Managed to get it a little out of square to I'll have to epoxy shim my fixed bearing side a little


welding part of the z stepper mount



NB. Newbies please take note!! These leather gloves were new when I started this project, which should give you an indication of the amount of work that goes into building a CNC. ;-)

but I found this helps a lot, before, after and during the process