Small rigid router - Design advise needed

[mitchejc]

Most of the parts are now made and I've started assembling things. Still lots of drilling and tapping to do though.

Other newbies take note: When you ever post a picture like this and don't realize you have "slightly" over-designed your little 600x500mm DYI router, then sir, you are an idiot Ok, its not really that heavy but its more than uncomfortable for one person to lift.


setting up x rails




Made these little adjusters front and back of both gantry bases (stainless allencap in pic below) to help adjusting things before I epoxy putty mated the gantry to the alu base plates. I'll use them again for final epoxy shimming if required once the z is on.


Aligning and measuring stuff. Really pleased with how things are turning out and I'm cautiously optimistic I'll get the accuracy I was hoping for.



No mater how well you think things thru beforehand there's always going to be that one hole you have to drill in an impossible place. No turning back now so just have to make a plan...


X and Y rails and X ball skrews fitted. Have to compete the Z back plate before I can fit Y ball skrew


Test fitting parts of the z back plate. Still quite a bit work left on the z but I hope to complete that next weekend.


So close but so far....