I've been lucky enough to get to work full time on my machine. The Solsylva parts were easy to come by and the plans are fully step by step from Solsylva so they are a doddle to be honest - the only hard part was converting all fixings and materials etc to metric and scaling up from 18x24 to 600x1200mm. Solsylva plans dont cover electronics at all and some of the parts use US terminology or are not easily available in the UK or in equivalent metric sizes so I agree I might appear to have asked a serious of otherwise baffling questions.

I admit my plans have been at times confused, erratic and jumping all over the place. I am overcoming quite a serious illness and a multitude of life changes which doesn't help. The CNC build is largely a distraction/rehab project for me. My initial plans were to build something "spectacular" until other people's good sense and advice brought me down to earth with first building something much more modest like a solsylva machine. A couple of months ago I didn't even know the first thing about how a CNC router worked - I just knew that as a woodworker I could really use one. So I followed the Solsylva plans as a discipline of learning.

I admit, it's so complex that at times I have felt like tossing the whole idea in the skip but I just try to take one day and 136 problems at a time :-)