Reducing the space in my garage.

[Rich]

Thanks Eddy. I did give that issue some thought. I decided to factor in my own in-experience and concluded that I would carry on building this slightly fragile machine first. I may need to cut plate aluminium in the future, hence the need for v.2.

Spent last evening reading the support offered by Gecko: http://www.geckodrive.com/support/st...or-basics.html . It offered a very helpful understanding of why unregulated supplies are preferrable i.e. motors behaving as alternators. On a three axis machine, using 4 x 3.1Nm motors (CNC4YOU) in parrellel, the numbers appear to be 11.088 amps and 57.25 volts. The numbers on power requirements will need double checking, they seemed low.

Anti-backlah Nuts
Is this a good buy: http://www.damencnc.com/en/component...--spindles/101

I was originally looking for something that worked with a Tr10 x 3, but I have been unable to find a workable solution, other than the MDL-2-TR 10x2D Special Nut, sold by Merchant Dice:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CNC-Z-Axis...item483f9663e7