Misterg
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The mount for the Y axis stepper is bolted to the ends of the two 40 x 40 sections (I couldn't think of a better way of doing it).
I welded a couple of blocks into the ends of the sections to give something to fix the stepper mount to
And hacked a mount out of aluminium (wouldn't it be nice to have a CNC to do this stuff? )
I thought that the Y axis still looked a bit flimsy in the side-to-side direction so welded in a bit more bracing - trying to tie the Y rails into the gantry feet
I capped all the open ends and welded in a few more blind bushes where I expected to need to fix something
I then keyed up the tops of the rails with some coarse paper on the sander before masking them up and doing the epoxy thing again to try and level them off
Again, it seemed to work OK.
A slightly better paint job
And a look at progress so far.
The little tab on the side of one of the 40 x 40 sections is to hold the Y axis home/ limit switch - the X and Z axis switches fit into the larger holes each side of the X/Z adapter plate.
I welded a couple of blocks into the ends of the sections to give something to fix the stepper mount to
And hacked a mount out of aluminium (wouldn't it be nice to have a CNC to do this stuff? )
I thought that the Y axis still looked a bit flimsy in the side-to-side direction so welded in a bit more bracing - trying to tie the Y rails into the gantry feet
I capped all the open ends and welded in a few more blind bushes where I expected to need to fix something
I then keyed up the tops of the rails with some coarse paper on the sander before masking them up and doing the epoxy thing again to try and level them off
Again, it seemed to work OK.
A slightly better paint job
And a look at progress so far.
The little tab on the side of one of the 40 x 40 sections is to hold the Y axis home/ limit switch - the X and Z axis switches fit into the larger holes each side of the X/Z adapter plate.