Building a CNC Router

[Grant H.]

Progress should be reasonably steady on this,

Why... Why do I write/say stuff like this?

Work blew up when Corp IT informed us that their ef-up had caused exposure on the gear that we maintain... Lots of hours. Planning to use the crappy weather as an excuse to hide in the garage and make some serious progress. Best laid plans and all that... Ended up working on O/G customer stuff with my brother (still sort of involved with my brothers company... I'm apparently still useful...)

I managed to get a few things accomplished, but not much picture worthy.
1. The gantry/riser interface plates are all drilled, counter bored, and counter sunk.
2. Ground down more t-slot nuts
3. Cut the gantry extrusion to the right length
4. Cut the gantry risers to the right height

And...

5... Ended up making some changes to the plan...

Despite the tails of the linear rails hanging off of the frame, I am not going to cut them down to use in the Z-axis. I'm going to leave them long so that I can expand the base in the future. It takes up a little more room that way, but it's not a huge deal. So, I ordered up some more rails to build the Z-axis. This will delay things a little bit, but not too bad.

Oh well, you win some days, and you lose some weekends...

More actual updates soon enough.