Hi all,
Well to say that this is a build thread would bending things a bit as the router is 'mostly' built, in fact I purposely avoided starting a build thread as that seems to be the death nail for any project I start anyway a little bit of background story;
This is my forth build, the 1st and 2nd builds I logged here, the 2nd machine was used of cut some parts for this machine, the 2nd machine used 8mm threaded rod for lead screws and was slow, plus the fact it wasn't on a stand and sat on the floor making it a pain to use meant it never got much use.
My 3rd build (picture attached) was a mini router 20cmx20cm, rough and ready but worked nicely, never made a log for this one and its scheduled for an upgrade to A4 size.
ok ok enough waffle lets get down to business.
Why 'Evolution'? well as far as i can see these machines are never truly finished and continue to evolve with upgrades/rethinks etc.
I was lucky enough to salvage some 25mm nsk rails 1600mm long plus supported round rails 1200mm long so the machine was designed around these.