As luck may have it I have a guy that wants to buy my TM 2x2. This was very good timing as I'm getting ready to upgrade to a 4'x4' machine anyway. I just got the metal home to build a water/router table. I have enough 2x4x.120 to put together my 4x4. Now my plan was to trade my 2' gantry in and get TM's 4' gantry and use my table as the rails instead of using TM's rails. I am going to mount it with linear rail and use either ball screw or rack & pinion to drive it. I have started looking for other gantry options now that I might sell my machine outright instead of trading it in.

Now I was wondering if you guys have a better gantry in mind? I have looked at the Velox 50" gantry but I really know nothing about them. They look like good units and they come with one of their Z axis units. Other than those do you guys have any other ideas for a good gantry? It needs to be under $1500 which seems doable to me. The Velox is $1250 including the Z axis.

Thanks much!!